Remote Sighting Camera Mount for Protected Battlefield Surveillance
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing military systems fail to provide troops with adequate visual surveillance and safety in combat environments, exposing them to enemy fire due to limited visibility and the need to expose themselves to danger, leading to high casualty rates.
Innovation Solution
A remotely operable military surveilling and service providing apparatus that integrates mechanical, electrical, and electronic components to enable full vertical and horizontal visual surveillance from a safe distance, providing advanced surveilling and service abilities through a compact system with reduced complexity and weight.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Loss of information
If troops expose themselves to acquire visual awareness of surroundings, then surveillance capability is improved, but safety and casualty rates worsen
Solution Approach 1:
The patent employs camera systems to create visual copies of the battlefield environment, transmitting images to displays mounted on vehicles. This allows troops to acquire complete visual awareness of surroundings without physically exposing themselves, as the camera captures and transmits visual information that replicates what would be seen from exposed positions.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces camera systems and image transmission equipment as intermediaries between troops and the battlefield environment. These intermediaries capture visual information from safe distances and deliver it to troops, eliminating the need for direct line-of-sight exposure while maintaining surveillance capability.
2Adaptability or versatility
If complex electronic systems are integrated to provide multiple surveilling abilities, then functionality is improved, but device complexity and weight increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent integrates multiple surveillance and service functions into a single unified system mounted on military vehicles. The system combines camera systems, image transmission, display equipment, and firearm mounting capabilities into one multi-functional apparatus that provides both surveilling and service providing abilities through shared hardware and control mechanisms.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent merges previously separate systems (surveillance cameras, image transmission equipment, display systems, and firearm mounts) into a single integrated vehicle-mounted platform. This consolidation reduces the number of separate components, simplifies installation and operation, and decreases overall system weight while maintaining all required functions.
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AI summary
An angularly positionable sighting and surveilling device for a firearm mountable on military equipment including an angularly positionable firearm mount capable of being attached to a military equipment, a camera comprising a field of view attached to and in alignment with a barrel of the firearm, such that the camera is capable of providing sighting visuals for the firearm therefrom; and a transmitter capable of transmitting images captured by the camera to a remote display, and related devices and systems.