Weapon targeting system

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10410378-B2
Application number	US-201815973368-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	May 7, 2018
Priority date	Sep 6, 2014
Publication date	Sep 10, 2019
Grant date	Sep 10, 2019

Abstract

A wearable electronic device displays an impact location that shows where a projectile fired from a weapon will hit a target and displays a bullseye location that shows a desired location where to hit the target. The wearable electronic device indicates firing the weapon when the impact location overlaps with the bullseye location.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A method, comprising:
determining, by electronics in a bow, a distance to a target;
determining, by the electronics in the bow and based on the distance, an arrow impact location that shows where an arrow shot from the bow will hit the target;
determining, by the electronics in the bow, a bullseye location on the target that shows a desired location where to hit the target with the arrow;
simultaneously displaying, with wearable electronic glasses that are in communication with the electronics in the bow, the arrow impact location on the target and the bullseye location on the target; and
displaying, with the wearable electronic glasses, a visual indication to shoot the arrow from the bow when the arrow impact location displayed on the wearable electronic glasses overlaps with the bullseye location displayed on the wearable electronic glasses.

2. The method of claim 1 further comprising:
capturing an image of the target;
comparing the image of the target with a database of images to determine a type of animal of the target;
determining the bullseye location on the target based on the type of animal of the target such that the arrow hitting the bullseye location will kill the animal.

3. The method of claim 1 further comprising:
tracking movement of the target;
adjusting the bullseye location on the target as the target moves so the bullseye location remains at a consistent location on the target while the target moves;
displaying, with the wearable electronic glasses, the bullseye location at the consistent location while the target moves.

4. The method of claim 1 further comprising:
changing a color of the bullseye location on the target when the arrow impact location overlaps with the bullseye location to provide the visual indication to shoot the arrow from the bow.

5. The method of claim 1 further comprising:
determining a velocity of the arrow from the bow;
determining a mass of the arrow;
determining a drag coefficient for the arrow;
determining an inclination angle of an aiming direction of the arrow in the bow with respect to an axis parallel to ground;
determining the arrow impact location based on the distance to the target, the velocity, the mass, the drag coefficient, and the inclination angle.

6. The method of claim 1 further comprising:
automatically shooting the arrow from the bow, by the electronics in the bow, when a shooter of the bow moves the arrow impact location displayed on the wearable electronic glasses to overlap with the bullseye location displayed on the wearable electronic glasses.

7. The method of claim 1 further comprising:
displaying, with the wearable electronic glasses, a virtual image superimposed over the target such that a wearer of the wearable electronic glasses sees the virtual image instead of the target while the wearer attempts to move the arrow impact location to overlap with the bullseye location that are displayed on the wearable electronic glasses.

8. The method of claim 1 further comprising:
determining when the arrow impact location moves onto the target;
illuminating the target and the bullseye location on the target in response to the arrow impact location being moved onto the target.

9. A weapon targeting system, comprising:
a bow in communication with electronics that determine a distance to a target and an inclination angle of an aiming direction of an arrow in the bow with respect to ground; and
wearable electronic glasses (WEG) with a display and a processor that is in communication with the display and the electronics,
wherein the display of the WEG simultaneously displays over the target an arrow impact location that shows where the arrow will hit the target and a bullseye location that shows a desired location where to hit the target with the arrow, and
wherein the display of the WEG displays an indication to shoot the arrow from the bow when the arrow impact location aligns with the bullseye location.

10. The weapon targeting system of claim 9 , wherein one of the electronics and the WEG receives ambient environmental conditions and calculates the arrow impact location based on the ambient environmental conditions.

11. The weapon targeting system of claim 9 , wherein the WEG retrieves a virtual image that has a size and a shape of the target, and the display of the WEG superimposes the virtual image over the target.

12. The weapon targeting system of claim 9 , wherein one of the electronics and the WEG calculates a trajectory of a flight path of the arrow from the bow to the arrow impact location, and the display displays the trajectory of the flight path before the arrow is shot from the bow.

13. The weapon targeting system of claim 9 , wherein the display displays an indication when the arrow impact location is not within a field of view of the WEG such that the indication includes a direction of where the arrow impact location is located outside of the field of view.

14. The weapon targeting system of claim 9 , wherein the weapon targeting system deactivates when the bow aims to a location on the ground that is proximate to the bow and activates when the bow aims away from the location on the ground.

15. The weapon targeting system of claim 9 , wherein the bullseye location displayed over the target is a circle that includes several concentric circles located in the circle and a dot located at a center of the circle.

16. A non-transitory computer readable storage medium storing instructions that cause one or more processors to execute a method, comprising:
obtain, with a camera in wearable electronic glasses, a distance from a bow to a target;
determine, with the wearable electronic glasses, a type of animal that is the target based on an image of the animal captured with the camera in the wearable electronic glasses;
calculate, with the wearable electronic glasses and based on the distance from the bow to the target, an arrow impact location that is where an arrow shot from the bow will impact the target;
calculate, with the wearable electronic glasses and based on the type of animal that is the target, a bullseye location that is a desired location where to hit the target with the arrow in order to kill the animal;
display, on a display of the wearable electronic glasses, the arrow impact location over the target and the bullseye location over the target; and
display, on the display of the wearable electronic glasses, a visual indication to shoot the arrow from the bow when the arrow impact location moves onto the bullseye location.

17. The non-transitory computer readable storage medium storing instructions of claim 16 further to cause the one or more processors to execute the method comprising:
determine, with the electronic glasses, a size and a shape of the animal that is the target based on the image of the animal captured with the camera in the wearable electronic glasses;
display, on the display of the wearable electronic glasses, a highlighted outline over the animal that is the target in order to highlight the target from a surrounding environment.

18. The non-transitory computer readable storage medium storing instructions of claim 16 further to cause the one or more processors to execute the method comprising:
display, on the display of the wearable electronic glasses, a trajectory path of the arrow in which the trajectory path extends from the bow to the arrow impact location.

19. The non-transitory computer readable storage medium storing instructions of claim 16 further to cause

Assignees

• Lyren Philip

Inventors

• Lyren Philip

Classifications

• G06T11/10 Primary

  Texturing; Colouring; Generation of textures or colours (retouching, inpainting or scratch removal G06T5/77) · CPC title

• F41G3/08

  with means for compensating for speed, direction, temperature, pressure, or humidity of the atmosphere (measuring G01) · CPC title

• F41G1/473

  for lead-indicating or range-finding, e.g. for use with rifles or shotguns · CPC title

• F41G3/12

  with means for compensating for muzzle velocity or powder temperature {with means for compensating for gun vibrations} · CPC title

• G09B19/0038

  Sports · CPC title