Firearm Targeting Aid With Sensor-Based Real-Time Shooting Feedback
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing training aids for improving shooting performance with firearms are inadequate in providing real-time and post-event feedback for hitting targets in flight, due to the complexity of factors involved and the difficulty in analyzing and instructing users effectively.
Innovation Solution
A targeting aid system mounted on a firearm that processes sensor data from image and inertial motion units to provide real-time and post-event feedback through audio, visual, and haptic cues, allowing users to adjust their aiming and firing techniques.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If real-time feedback is provided to improve shooting performance, then user performance is improved, but device complexity increases due to multiple sensors and processing requirements
Solution Approach 1:
The system divides the feedback function into separate modules: image sensor processing for target tracking, inertial motion unit processing for firearm movement analysis, and distinct feedback generation pathways for real-time and post-event instructions. This segmentation allows complex functionality to be managed through modular components that can be independently optimized and combined.
Solution Approach 2:
The targeting aid device integrates multiple functions into a single system: it provides real-time feedback during shooting, delivers post-event analysis, tracks target trajectory, analyzes firearm movement, and generates both immediate and delayed instructional cues. This multi-functionality consolidates what would otherwise require multiple separate devices into one unified system.
2Loss of information
If post-event analysis is provided to improve shooting technique, then learning opportunity increases, but time delay reduces immediate applicability of feedback
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary data collection and processing during the shooting event itself, storing image sequences, motion data, and trajectory information ready for immediate analysis. This preliminary action ensures that when feedback is needed, the data is already prepared and can be processed instantly, minimizing the time delay between the shooting event and feedback delivery.
Solution Approach 2:
The system maintains continuous operation by simultaneously providing real-time feedback during shooting and preparing post-event analysis in parallel. The feedback mechanism operates continuously without interruption, switching between immediate instructional cues during the shot and detailed post-event breakdowns afterward, ensuring no learning opportunity is lost to time delay.
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The present disclosure relates generally to systems, devices, and/or methods that may operate to provide training to a user of a firearm, such as a shotgun, rifle, handgun, or the like, so as to improve the user's performance with respect to hitting targets in flight via projectiles fired or discharged from the firearm.