Angled Optic Weapon Siting System with Video Overlay
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing targeting and weapon siting systems lack the ability to provide video insertion, multi-color image display, and wide boresight adjustment, making it difficult for users to accurately acquire targets.
Innovation Solution
An active display based targeting and weapon siting system incorporating an angled optic device and a display module with a mirror and focusing lenses, which allows a user's line of sight to pass through while projecting video images, multi-color images, and wide boresight adjustment data for improved targeting.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Device complexity
If simple red dot or holographic devices are used for siting, then the device complexity is reduced, but the ability to provide video insertion, multi-color image display, and wide boresight adjustment is lost
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines multiple functions (video display, multi-color imaging, boresight adjustment) into a single integrated heads-up display system. The display module integrates video insertion capability, multi-color LED indicators, and wide boresight adjustment mechanisms into one unified device, resolving the contradiction by merging previously separate functions into a cohesive system that maintains adaptability while managing complexity.
Solution Approach 2:
The heads-up display system is designed to perform multiple functions simultaneously: it provides video insertion for target acquisition, multi-color LED indicators for status information, wide boresight adjustment for alignment, and overlay display for targeting data. This multi-functional design enables the system to adapt to various targeting scenarios while maintaining a unified device structure.
2Adaptability or versatility
If video insertion and multi-color image display are added to the targeting system, then the adaptability is improved, but the device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent utilizes the angular dimension by positioning the display module at an angle to the user's line of sight. This angular configuration allows video images and multi-color indicators to be projected into the user's field of view without blocking the direct view of the target. By exploiting the angular dimension, the system adds video insertion and multi-color display capabilities while maintaining a compact form factor and managing overall device complexity.
3Ease of operation
If the display module projects images into the user's line of sight, then the ease of operation is improved, but the manufacturing precision requirements increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces an angled optic device as an intermediary between the display module and the user's line of sight. This optic device acts as a mediator that receives images from the display module and projects them into the user's field of view at the appropriate angle. The intermediary optic device simplifies the alignment requirements and reduces manufacturing precision demands compared to direct projection methods, while still enabling easy operation and accurate target acquisition.
Applied Scientific Principles
This section explains which scientific principles are used to turn an abstract innovation direction into a practical engineering solution.
Function Achieved in This Case
Enhances the user's ability to accurately aim by providing critical targeting data such as coordinates and distance, improving the strike rate by overlaying images directly into the user's line of sight through the angled optic device.
Implementation Method 1
the mirror is configured to reflect the images on to the user's line of sight through the angled optic device
Implementation Method 2
the at least one focusing lens is configured to focus the images from the display module on to the mirror
Data Source
AI summary
An active display based targeting and weapon siting system for providing focusing and targeting data is disclosed. In one embodiment, the active display based targeting and weapon siting system includes an angled optic device configured to allow a user's line of sight to pass through the angled optic device. Further, the active display based targeting and weapon siting system includes a display module configured to provide images including video images, multicolor images and/or wide boresight adjustment and to direct the images into the user's line of sight through the angled optic device.