Camera integrated firearm system and method

a firearm system and integrated technology, applied in the field of integrated firearm systems and methods, can solve the problems of unreliable, conflicting witnesses, and often unreliable, and achieve the effect of maintaining weapon accuracy, reliability, and safety
US20080066362A1Inactive Publication Date: 2008-03-20FIDLOW HAL
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Authority / Receiving Office
US · United States
Patent Type
Applications(United States)
Current Assignee / Owner
FIDLOW HAL
Publication Date
2008-03-20
Estimated Expiration
Not applicable · inactive patent

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Abstract

A camera integrated firearm system replaces the original recoil spring and guide assembly of a firearm with a casing which includes a camera, a gunshot impact sensing and switching module, an image memory module, and output data ports. When the weapon is discharged, the sensing and switching module senses this discharge and immediately turns on the camera. The camera, utilizing ambient light plus the light generated by muzzle flash, i.e. the jet of fire exiting the barrel at the instant the bullet exits the weapon, takes and saves, in memory, a closely spaced sequential stream of digital photographs or, alternatively, video recordings. Using the data outputs, the images can then be downloaded for viewing.
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[0001] Provisional application No. 60 / 844,934, filed on Sep. 5, 2006.BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION

[0002] The use of firearms by local, state, and federal law enforcement personnel, as well as the military and private security sectors, presents a variety of situations in which the very circumstances surrounding this usage becomes an issue. For instance, oftentimes there are questions as to whether the discharge of a weapon was necessary, what events dictated the firing of a weapon, or who was actually present on the scene and what those individuals may have been doing at the time a weapon was fired. Recounts and recreations of circumstances surrounding the use of firearms is critical to subsequent investigations. However, witness observations, after the fact, are often conflicting and unreliable. Inquiries would be well served if images of the actual incidents which are the subjects of investigation could be viewed by the finder of fact. As a result, the contemporaneou...

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