Sighting Device Touch-Controlled Lighting for Visibility
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional sighting devices struggle to provide clear markings in darker environments, leading to reduced usability and accuracy, especially in shooting sports and games.
Innovation Solution
A sighting device equipped with a touch unit that transmits touch signals to a controller, allowing for adjustable brightness and color of the lighting unit, enhancing visibility and convenience by adapting to the surrounding light conditions.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Illumination intensity
If conventional sights without lighting units are used, then the device complexity is low, but the markings are not visible in darker environments
Solution Approach 1:
The lighting unit's brightness is made adjustable through touch unit control, allowing the illumination intensity to adapt dynamically to different environmental lighting conditions. This resolves the contradiction by enabling the markings to be visible in darker environments while avoiding unnecessary complexity in well-lit conditions.
Solution Approach 2:
The lighting unit's operational parameters (brightness level, color temperature) are made changeable via the controller and touch unit. This allows the system to optimize marking visibility across different lighting conditions without permanently increasing device complexity, as the changes are software-controlled rather than hardware-based.
2Adaptability or versatility
If fixed brightness lighting units are used, then the ease of operation is high, but the adaptability to different lighting conditions is poor
Solution Approach 1:
The touch unit enables users to self-adjust the lighting brightness and color according to their specific needs and environmental conditions. This maintains ease of operation by giving direct user control rather than requiring complex automatic sensing systems, while still achieving adaptability to different lighting scenarios.
Solution Approach 2:
The lighting parameters are made dynamically adjustable through the touch interface, allowing the system to adapt to varying lighting conditions. The controller processes touch signals to modify brightness and color in real-time, balancing adaptability with operational simplicity.
3Ease of operation
If adjustable brightness lighting units with touch control are added, then the usability in various lighting conditions improves, but the device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
Traditional mechanical brightness adjustment mechanisms (physical dials, switches) are replaced with a touch-based electronic control system. This substitution reduces mechanical complexity while enabling more sophisticated control capabilities, improving usability without proportionally increasing device complexity.
Solution Approach 2:
The touch unit serves multiple functions: adjusting brightness, changing color temperature, and potentially other lighting parameters. This multi-functionality consolidates what would otherwise require multiple separate controls into a single interface, improving usability while minimizing the increase in device complexity.
Applied Scientific Principles
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Function Achieved in This Case
The solution improves usability and accuracy by allowing users to adjust the brightness and color of the reticle pattern or red dot pattern in real-time, enhancing visibility in various lighting conditions and expanding the device's usability beyond military applications.
Implementation Method 1
at least one lighting unit disposed on the body for generating a light and projecting the light onto the reticle
Implementation Method 2
the touch unit is disposed on the body for sensing an external touch and generating a touch signal in correspondence to the external touch
Data Source
AI summary
A sighting device includes a body, a lighting unit, a touch unit, and a controller, wherein the lighting unit, the touch unit, and the controller are disposed on the body, and the controller is electrically connected to the touch unit and the lighting unit. The body has an accommodating space for accommodating a lens or at least one lens assembly. A reticle or an optical beam splitter is disposed in the accommodating space, and a light generated by the lighting unit is projected onto a scale or hairline of the reticle or the optical beam splitter. The touch unit senses an external touch and generates a touch signal in correspondence to the external touch, and the controller adjusts the brightness level and/or the color of the light generated by the lighting unit based on the touch signal.