Airbus has filed a patent for an interactive aircraft cabin window display, indicating that the French aviation giant may display content, that can be controlled by passengers, on aeroplane windows in the future. The patent application covers interaction by touch or eye-tracking cameras and suggests the display could be used to represent "an environment outside the aircraft cabin window".
The US Patent was filed on March
18, 2015 and opens up the possibility that passengers
could access information about a view from an
aircraft using an augmented reality application.
Presumably aircraft windows
would have to get a lot larger to
make use of this technology, which opens up a
host of safety and cost issues, indicating that
Airbus probably has its sights set more on publicity
than a tangible development with this latest patent application.