Interactive Shooting Target with GPS and Audio Feedback
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional shooting targets are passive and do not respond to the shooter's position, proximity, or skill, lacking interactive capabilities to provide feedback or adapt to the shooting environment.
Innovation Solution
An interactive target system featuring three-dimensional targets with pivoting surfaces, GPS, strike status detection, and electromagnetic signal transmission, which communicate with a cooperating device to generate audio feedback and adjust target presentation based on shooting data, including strike count and location.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If conventional passive targets are used, then the device complexity is low, but the adaptability and interactivity are insufficient
Solution Approach 1:
The target system integrates multiple functions including GPS location tracking, strike detection, audio feedback generation, data transmission, and dynamic target presentation. The cooperating device serves multiple purposes: receiving target data, generating audio notifications, tracking shooter position, and managing shooting sessions. This multi-functionality approach resolves the contradiction by consolidating various interactive capabilities into unified systems rather than separate components.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces electromagnetic signal transmission as an intermediary between the target and shooter systems. This allows data exchange (location, strike status, target information) without direct physical connection, enabling interactivity while maintaining system modularity. The electromagnetic communication layer acts as a mediator that connects the GPS components, audio generators, and data processing functions across distributed devices.
2Adaptability or versatility
If interactive components are added to targets, then the adaptability improves, but the ease of manufacture decreases
Solution Approach 1:
The target system is divided into separate functional modules: GPS location components, strike detection mechanisms, audio feedback generators, and data transmission devices. These segmented modules can be manufactured independently and assembled into the complete target system, reducing the complexity of manufacturing each individual component while enabling the overall system to adapt to various shooting scenarios.
3Measurement precision
If real-time data transmission is implemented, then the measurement precision of shooting data improves, but the use of energy increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system implements periodic data transmission rather than continuous transmission. Location data is transmitted at scheduled intervals or when specific events occur (such as target hits or shooter approach), rather than continuously monitoring and transmitting. This periodic action maintains measurement precision for tracking shooting progress while significantly reducing energy consumption compared to continuous data exchange.
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 shooting experience by providing real-time audio feedback and dynamic target interaction, simulating real-world scenarios and allowing for data-driven adjustments in target presentation and difficulty.
Implementation Method 1
a spring adapted to bias the target surface into the open position
Implementation Method 2
The GPS generates the targets location
Implementation Method 3
an electromagnetic signal transmitter and receiver
Data Source
AI summary
An interactive target system including a first target assembly having a first target base operationally engaged with a first anchoring component, a first target surface rotatably engaged with, or fixed to, the first target base, a first spring adapted to bias the first target surface into the open position, a first electronics component having a first target GPS operationally engaged with the first target assembly, a first target strike status detector adapted to generate a first target strike count, and a first target electromagnetic signal transmitter and receiver, a first cooperating signal device having a first cooperating signal device GPS operationally engaged with the first cooperating signal device, a first cooperating signal device electromagnetic signal transmitter and receiver, a clock, and a first sound generator adapted to selectably generate a first notification sound.