JP2004227213A - Method of instructing helicopter from ground about flight target position - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To enable a helicopter flying to a scene of affair, accident, disaster, distress, etc. to rapidly, safely and precisely arrive at the scene by timely transmitting and instructing the helicopter from the ground about a flight target position. <P>SOLUTION: Emergency information of the affair, accident, disaster, distress, etc., position data of the scene, and weather information around the scene are transmitted to the helicopter by a helicopter operation management support system. Each piece of the transmitted information is displayed on a GPS-MAP mounted on the helicopter, whereby the helicopter is made to rush to the target position of the scene. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO&NCIPI

Description

[0001]
TECHNICAL FIELD OF THE INVENTION
The present invention relates to a method of indicating a flight target position from the ground to a helicopter for quickly, safely, and accurately rushing a helicopter to a site where an incident, accident, disaster, distress, or the like has occurred.
[0002]
[Prior art]
A news helicopter must rush to the site where an incident, accident, disaster, distress, etc. has occurred, take a picture, and broadcast a video as news. However, it often takes a long time to move to the shooting site due to lack of information. In addition, it is important for firefighting and emergency helicopters and rescue helicopters to cooperate with ground units (ground fire crews, ambulances, patient accommodation points), but it is difficult to find such places from the sky, A common map (paper) is prepared for the ground and the helicopter, and the location is confirmed by wireless communication. A related prior art document is "Development of Helicopter Danger Avoidance System (First Report) -Development of GPS / MAP System-" (Kawasaki Heavy Industries Technical Report No. 120, January 1994).
[0003]
[Problems to be solved by the invention]
Accordingly, the present invention provides a helicopter flying toward the site of an incident, accident, disaster, distress, etc., in a timely manner from the ground to transmit the flight target position to the helicopter, promptly, safely, and accurately at the above-mentioned site of occurrence. It aims to provide a method for indicating the target position of a flight to a helicopter that can arrive, especially for a news helicopter, to check in advance the flight safety point, shooting position and direction, etc. It is an object of the present invention to provide a method of indicating a flight target position to a helicopter which can obtain a desired video with a television camera and display character data such as an address and a name on the video.
[0004]
[Means for Solving the Problems]
In order to solve the above-mentioned problems, a method of indicating a flight target position from the ground to a helicopter according to the present invention is performed by a helicopter operation management support system by using emergency information such as incidents, accidents, disasters, distresses, on-site position data, and near-site weather information. Is transmitted to a helicopter, and the transmitted information is displayed on a GPS-MAP mounted on the helicopter, whereby the helicopter is rushed to a target position on the site.
[0005]
In the above-described method of indicating a flight target position from the ground to a helicopter according to the present invention, when transmitting the position data of the site to the helicopter, the position of the site is clicked with a mouse on the two-dimensional electronic map of the operation support device, or the latitude and longitude are previously determined. , Name, etc. are registered, the latitude and longitude are extracted, and the latitude and longitude information of the site is transmitted to the helicopter by the data transmission / reception device, and the latitude and longitude information of the transmitted site is transmitted. It is preferable to display a specific mark on the display device in the helicopter based on the above.
[0006]
In the method of indicating a flight target position from the ground to the helicopter according to the present invention, when transmitting emergency information such as incidents, accidents, disasters, distresses, etc., on-site position data and on-site weather information to the helicopter as textual information, The character information is created by inputting required character information from the keyboard of the device or selecting a pre-registered fixed phrase, and transmitted to the helicopter by the data transmission / reception device, and the transmitted character information is transmitted. Is preferably displayed on the display device in the helicopter.
[0007]
Further, in the method of indicating a flight target position from the ground to a helicopter according to the present invention, when each information transmitted to the helicopter is displayed on a GPS-MAP mounted on the helicopter and simultaneously responds as character information on the ground, a display device in the helicopter Create character information by key operation input of or keyboard input, or select a pre-registered fixed phrase, transmit it to the ground, and display this transmitted character information on the navigation support device Is preferred.
[0008]
In the method of indicating a flight target position from the ground to a helicopter according to the present invention, when the helicopter is a news helicopter, the GPS-MAP screen is switched to a three-dimensional display, and a flight safety point, a shooting position near the site, It is preferable to confirm and determine the shooting direction. It is also preferable that a television camera mounted on a news helicopter is remotely controlled from the ground to shoot a desired image. It is also preferable to display attribute data such as an address and a name on a captured video.
[0009]
BEST MODE FOR CARRYING OUT THE INVENTION
An embodiment of a method of indicating a flight target position from the ground to a helicopter according to the present invention will be described for a news helicopter. When the TV station receives emergency information on the occurrence of an incident, disaster, distress, etc. by telephone, radio, etc., the information is first transmitted to the news helicopter 1 and the antenna installed on the roof of the TV station 2 shown in FIG. The data is transmitted to the helicopter 1 by the helicopter operation management support system 3 capable of exchanging data, and is displayed as character data 5 on the GPS-MAP 4 in the aircraft. Next, the television station 2 specifies the position of the site of occurrence on the two-dimensional MAP 6 of the PC (searches for the position using the place name and keyword). The location of the generation site is specified by clicking the generation site position on the two-dimensional MAP 6 of the PC in the television station 2 or by selecting a location in which latitude, longitude, name, and the like are registered in advance. Preferably, it is performed by extracting longitude. Depending on the occurrence information, the position (latitude, longitude) of the site may be obtained accurately. In that case, the position can be determined by directly inputting data to the PC. The TV station 2 receives weather information near the site of occurrence. The helicopter operation management support system 3 transmits the weather information and the location data of the occurrence site to the helicopter 1 as character information. That is, by inputting required character information from a keyboard of the operation support device of the television station 2 or by selecting a pre-registered fixed phrase, character information is created, and this character information is converted into a helicopter operation management support system. 3 is transmitted to the helicopter 1 by the data transmitting / receiving device. The transmitted character information is displayed on the GPS-MAP 4 as a display device in the helicopter 1 as character data 7 of weather information and a site position as a specific mark (for example, ☆). Therefore, a direct flight route 8 to the site position of the helicopter 1 can be arbitrarily drawn on the GPS-MAP 4, so that the pilot can quickly, safely, and accurately rush the helicopter 1 to the site position. The TV cameraman on board can immediately shoot the site at his own discretion, and can quickly and efficiently send the shot image 9 to a TV station and broadcast it as news news. When the pilot rushes the helicopter 1 to the site position, if the news vehicle is ahead of the site position on the ground, the position of the news vehicle is displayed on the GPS-MAP 4 in the aircraft, and the pilot , The helicopter 1 can be rushed to the site position earlier. In the process of the pilot moving the helicopter 1 to the site position, the screen of the GPS-MAP 4 in the aircraft is switched to the three-dimensional display 10 and displayed, so that the pilot can check the surroundings of the site in advance, flight safety points, shooting The position and shooting direction can be confirmed and determined. Further, the operator of the terrestrial television station 2 uses the three-dimensional display device 11 to understand buildings and terrain around the helicopter 1 in flight as 3D CG images, checks the shooting position and shooting direction near the site, and checks the helicopter 1 After arriving at the site position, instruct the television cameraman on board the helicopter 1 to shoot the desired image, or control the TV camera mounted on the helicopter 1 by remote control to shoot the desired image. Is also good. This is implemented using one function of a helicopter video transmission system (helivision system). The video 9 taken by the television camera mounted on the helicopter 1 is compared with an electronic map having attribute data such as an address and a building name, and attribute data 12 such as an address and a building name corresponding to a shooting position are compared. It may be added to the video 9.
[0010]
As described above, when the information transmitted to the helicopter 1 is displayed on the GPS-MAP 4 mounted on the helicopter 1 and at the same time responds as character information on the ground, a key operation input of a display device in the helicopter 1 or a keyboard By inputting or selecting a pre-registered fixed phrase, character information is created and transmitted to the TV station 2 on the ground, and the transmitted character information may be displayed on the navigation support device.
[0011]
The above is an embodiment of the method of indicating the target position of the flight from the television station to the news helicopter. Needless to say, the present invention can be applied to the indication of a point. Of course, transmission of each information is performed by utilizing the helicopter operation management support system and displaying the information on the GPS-MAP mounted on each helicopter.
[0012]
A series of processes of the method for indicating a target position of flight from the ground to the helicopter according to the present invention is shown in a flowchart of FIG. As can be seen from FIG. 2, various information is transmitted and displayed between the ground helicopter operation management support system and the GPS-MAP (display device) mounted on the helicopter, and the helicopter is quickly and safely moved to the target flight position. Can be rushed, exactly.
[0013]
【The invention's effect】
As can be seen from the above description, according to the method for indicating a flight target position from the ground to a helicopter according to the present invention, a flight target position from the ground is determined for a helicopter flying toward a site where an incident, accident, disaster, distress, or the like occurs. Since the transmission instruction can be given in a timely manner, it is possible to quickly, safely, and accurately arrive at the generation site and perform a required task. Especially for news helicopters, check flight safety points, shooting positions and directions in advance, obtain desired images with the mounted TV camera, and add character data such as addresses and names to the images. By displaying the information, it can be used as real-time news.
[Brief description of the drawings]
FIG. 1 is an explanatory diagram of one embodiment of a method of indicating a flight target position from the ground to a helicopter according to the present invention.
FIG. 2 is a flowchart showing a series of processes of a method of indicating a target position of flight from the ground to a helicopter according to the present invention.
[Explanation of symbols]
1 Helicopter 2 TV station 3 Helicopter operation management support system 4 GPS-MAP mounted on helicopter
5 Character data (occurrence information)
6 PC two-dimensional MAP (in a TV station)
7 Character data (weather information)
8 Flight route 9 Photographed video 10 3D display 11 3D display device (in a TV station)
12 Attribute data (address, building name, etc.)

Claims (7)

The helicopter operation management support system sends emergency information such as incidents, accidents, disasters, distresses, etc., site location data and weather information near the site to the helicopter, and sends this transmitted information to the GPS-MAP mounted on the helicopter. A method for indicating a flight target position from the ground to the helicopter, wherein the display is performed so as to make the helicopter rush to the target position on the spot. When transmitting the position data of the site to the helicopter, by clicking the mouse on the site position on the two-dimensional electronic map of the navigation support device, or by selecting a point where the latitude, longitude, name, etc. are registered in advance, It extracts the latitude and longitude, transmits the latitude and longitude information of the site to the helicopter by the data transmission / reception device, and displays a specific mark on the display device in the helicopter based on the transmitted latitude and longitude information of the site. 2. The method for indicating a flight target position from the ground to a helicopter according to claim 1. When transmitting emergency information such as incidents, accidents, disasters, distresses, etc., location data of the site and weather information of the site to the helicopter as text information, enter the required text information from the keyboard of the flight support device or register it in advance. 2. The method according to claim 1, wherein character information is created by selecting the fixed form sent out, and transmitted to the helicopter by the data transmitting / receiving device, and the transmitted character information is displayed on the display device in the helicopter. For indicating the flight target position from the ground to the helicopter. When each information transmitted to the helicopter is displayed on the GPS-MAP mounted on the helicopter and at the same time responds as character information on the ground, the key operation input of the display device in the helicopter, the keyboard input, or a pre-registered fixed form 2. A flight target position from the ground to a helicopter according to claim 1, wherein character information is created by selecting a sentence, transmitted to the ground, and the transmitted character information is displayed on an operation support device. Instruction method. 2. The method according to claim 1, wherein when the helicopter is a news helicopter, the screen of the GPS-MAP is switched to a three-dimensional display, and a flight safety point, a shooting position near the site, and a shooting direction are confirmed and determined in advance. How to indicate the target position of the flight from the ground to the helicopter. 6. The method according to claim 1, wherein a television camera mounted on a news helicopter is remotely controlled from the ground to shoot a desired image. 7. The method according to claim 6, wherein attribute data such as an address and a name are displayed on the photographed video.

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