Human-Detection Sighting Control for Shooting Safety Lockout

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing sighting devices do not adequately address safety concerns, particularly in low-light conditions, risking accidental harm to humans due to their inability to differentiate between human targets and intended targets, limiting their use to civilian scenarios and preventing military applications.

Innovation Solution

A sighting control method that utilizes human detection through image recognition and inertial sensors to determine if a human target is aimed at, triggering self-destruction of the device if a shooting action occurs, thereby restricting its use to civilian scenarios.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Measurement precision

If a sighting device is added to shooting equipment to improve aiming accuracy, then shooting accuracy is improved, but safety risks increase due to inability to differentiate human targets

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveshooting accuracyVSAvoidsafety risks
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSObject-affected harmful factors

Solution Approach 1:

The sighting device incorporates a feedback mechanism by continuously monitoring the target area through image sensors and inertial sensors, analyzing whether a human target is detected and whether a shooting action occurs, then providing real-time feedback to control the device's operational state or trigger alerts to prevent unauthorized military use

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

Solution Approach 2:

The sighting device performs self-verification by automatically detecting human targets and shooting actions through its integrated sensors and processing unit, making autonomous decisions about device state control without requiring external monitoring systems

Inventive Principle:
Principle #25Self-service

2Object-affected harmful factors

If the sighting device monitors for human targets and shooting actions, then safety is improved, but device complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:
ImprovesafetyVSAvoiddevice complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Object-affected harmful factorsVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The sighting device merges multiple functions into a single integrated system: image sensors for target detection, inertial sensors for shooting action detection, processing unit for analyzing both data streams, and control mechanisms for device state management, thereby achieving enhanced safety without proportionally increasing overall device complexity

Inventive Principle:
Principle #5Merging (Combining)

Solution Approach 2:

The sighting device achieves multi-functionality by simultaneously performing aiming assistance, human target detection, shooting action monitoring, and unauthorized use prevention, allowing a single device to serve multiple purposes including both civilian hunting applications and safety control mechanisms

Inventive Principle:
Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

Data Source

PatentUS12510331B2Sighting control method based on human detection, product, device and medium
Publication Date: 2025.12.30 YANTAI RAYTRON TECH CO LTD
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AI summary

The application provides a sighting control method based on human detection, a product, a device and a medium. The sighting control method based on human detection includes: acquiring a current scene image in a current field of view of a sighting device; determining whether there is a human target currently being aimed according to a target recognition result of the current scene image and the position of an aiming mark in the current scene image; detecting whether a shooting action occurs if it is determined that there is a target human currently being aimed at; and controlling the sighting device to self-destroy if a shooting action occurs.