OLED Firearm Sight for Electronic Zeroing
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current optical sights for firearms require high precision mechanical interfaces for aligning optical axes, which is time-consuming, costly, and budget-intensive due to the need for precise manufacturing and assembly, especially for passive aiming reticles.
Innovation Solution
An OLED Display-based firearm sight system that generates an active reticle image with additional information layers, integrated with various optical interfaces, enabling electronic zeroing and automatic reticle adjustment, and overlaying data from external sources and sensors onto the natural field of view, creating an Augmented/Mixed Reality Display.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Measurement precision
If passive aiming reticles with high precision mechanical interfaces are used, then alignment precision is improved, but manufacturing cost and assembly time increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent replaces the mechanical alignment interface system with an electronic display system. Instead of using passive reticles requiring high-precision mechanical mounting, the invention uses an OLED display that can be mounted with standard, less precise mechanical interfaces. The reticle image is generated electronically, eliminating the need for mechanical alignment between the reticle and the firearm's optical axis.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent changes the state of the reticle from a fixed physical component to a dynamic electronic image. This allows the reticle to be adjusted and modified through software rather than requiring physical repositioning or replacement, fundamentally changing how alignment is achieved from mechanical to digital parameters.
2Measurement precision
If passive aiming reticles with high precision mechanical interfaces are used, then alignment precision is improved, but assembly time increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent replaces the time-consuming mechanical alignment process with electronic image generation. The OLED display can be mounted using standard interfaces without requiring precision alignment procedures, dramatically reducing assembly time while maintaining accuracy through software-based reticle positioning.
3Ease of manufacture
If active reticle images with electronic zeroing are used, then ease of manufacture is improved, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent replaces complex mechanical adjustment mechanisms with electronic control systems. The OLED display and associated electronics provide zeroing and reticle adjustment capabilities through software, eliminating the need for complex mechanical interfaces while managing complexity through integrated electronic components.
4Loss of information
If OLED Display with additional information layers is used, then information display capability is improved, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent makes the OLED display serve multiple functions: displaying the reticle image, providing electronic zeroing capabilities, showing additional operational information, and enabling diagnostic functions. This consolidates multiple functions into a single component, managing overall device complexity while enhancing information display capability.
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
This solution reduces the need for mechanical alignment, lowers production and assembly costs, and enhances aiming precision through electronic zeroing and automatic reticle adjustment, while providing additional operational and diagnostic information.
Implementation Method 1
An OLED Display for generating an image, wherein the image includes at least an active reticle image
Implementation Method 2
an Optical Interface for transferring the image generated by the OLED Display, to the eye of user, wherein the generated image is combined with a natural field of view
Implementation Method 3
utilize various reflector type or holographic type Optical Interfaces
Data Source
AI summary
Disclosed are methods, circuits, components, apparatus, devices, assemblies and systems for imaging. According to some embodiments, there may be provided a sight for a firearm to assist in aiming the firearm towards a target in a field of view of the sight. A target view optical assembly introduces additional light information to light passing from an objective-side aperture to a viewing-side aperture. A display array assembly renders and collimates the additional light information coupled into the passing light. And a controller causes a display array of the display array assembly to dynamically render a targeting reticle, wherein a location of the dynamically rendered targeting reticle on the display is a function of a distance to an intended target.