Weapon targeting system

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10816307-B2
Application number	US-201916671253-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Nov 1, 2019
Priority date	Sep 19, 2014
Publication date	Oct 27, 2020
Grant date	Oct 27, 2020

Abstract

A point of aim shows where a weapon is aimed on a target. An electronic device determines an impact location on the target of a projectile fired from the weapon, determines a distance from the point of aim to the impact location, and moves the point of aim in order to sight the weapon to the target.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A method comprising:
displaying, on a display of a wearable electronic glasses (WEG) worn on a head of a user with a rifle, a point of aim (POA) of the rifle that moves in real-time with movements of the rifle to show where the rifle is aimed;
analyzing, by the WEG worn on the head of the user, one or more shooting conditions that effect a trajectory of a bullet fired from the rifle;
sighting the rifle by automatically moving, by the WEG, a location on the display of the WEG where the POA appears in order to compensate for the one or more shooting conditions; and
simultaneously displaying, on the display of the WED, the POA along with a desired target impact location (DTIL) on a target that shows a desired location where to hit the target with a bullet fired from the rifle.

2. The method of claim 1 further comprising:
determining, by the WEG, a miss location of the bullet fired from the rifle; and
automatically moving, by the WEG and in response to determining the miss location, the POA to compensate for the miss location.

3. The method of claim 1 further comprising:
determining, with a sensor, an orientation of the rifle;
automatically deactivating a weapon targeting system (WTS) of the WEG when the rifle aims to a location on ground; and
automatically activating the WTS of the WEG when the rifle aims to a location away from the ground.

4. The method of claim 1 further comprising:
wirelessly receiving, at the WEG and from an electronic scope mounted to the rifle, information about the POA of the rifle,
wherein the POA displayed on the display of the WEG appears as crosshairs that also appear on a display of the electronic scope, and
wherein the crosshairs displayed on the display of the WEG and the display of the electronic scope show an impact location where the bullet fired from the rifle will impact.

5. The method of claim 1 further comprising:
determining, from analysis by the WEG of an image of the target, an impact location of where the bullet fired from the rifle hit the target; and
sighting the rifle by automatically moving, by the WEG, the location on the display of the WEG where the POA appears in order to compensate for the one or more shooting conditions that include a difference between the POA on the target and the impact location.

6. The method of claim 1 further comprising:
receiving, at the WEG, a speed of a moving target at which the rifle is aimed; and
automatically moving, by the WEG, the POA displayed on the display of the WEG to compensate for the speed of the moving target so the POA does not have to lead the moving target but is placed on the moving target to hit the moving target with the bullet fired from the rifle.

7. The method of claim 1 , wherein the one or more shooting conditions include bore temperature of the rifle.

8. The method of claim 1 , wherein the WEG automatically moves the POA displayed on the display to compensate for the one or more shooting conditions that include a speed at which the target is moving.

9. A non-transitory computer readable storage medium storing instructions that cause one or more processors to execute a method, comprising:
wirelessly receiving, at a wearable electronic device (WED) worn on a head of a user and from an electronic scope mounted to a rifle with the user, information from the electronic scope that displays crosshairs showing where the rifle is aimed;
displaying, on the display of the WED, the crosshairs that show where the rifle is aimed and that move in real-time with movements of the rifle;
automatically moving a location on the display of the WED where the crosshairs appear in order to compensate for one or more shooting conditions in order to maintain the rifle zeroed for the one or more shooting conditions; and
simultaneously displaying, on the display of the WED, the crosshairs along with a desired target impact location (DTIL) on a target that shows a desired location where to hit the target with a bullet fired from the rifle.

10. The non-transitory computer readable storage medium storing instructions of claim 9 in which the method further comprises:
determining, with a sensor, an orientation of the rifle;
automatically activating a weapon targeting system (WTS) when the rifle has the orientation pointed to ground; and
automatically deactivating the WTS when the rifle has the orientation pointed away from the ground.

11. The non-transitory computer readable storage medium storing instructions of claim 9 in which the method further comprises:
determining, with the WED, where the bullet fired from the rifle hit the target at which the rifle was aimed; and
displaying, on the display of the WED, information indicating that the bullet fired from the rifle hit the target at which the rifle was aimed.

12. The non-transitory computer readable storage medium storing instructions of claim 9 in which the method further comprises:
determining, by the WED, when the bullet fired from the rifle will hit the target at which the rifle was aimed; and
displaying, on the display of the WED, information instructing the user to fire the rifle upon determining that the bullet fired from the rifle will hit the target.

13. The non-transitory computer readable storage medium storing instructions of claim 9 in which the method further comprises:
tracking, with the electronic scope mounted to the rifle, the target at which the rifle was aimed; and
displaying, on the display of the WED, information instructing the user that the target seen through the WED is identified and is being tracked.

14. The non-transitory computer readable storage medium storing instructions of claim 9 in which the method further comprises:
automatically moving, by the WEG, where the crosshairs are displayed on the display of the WEG to compensate for the one of shooting conditions that include a speed at which the target is moving.

15. The non-transitory computer readable storage medium storing instructions of claim 9 in which the method further comprises:
determining, by the WED, a difference between a point of aim of the rifle and an impact location of the bullet fired from the rifle; and
automatically moving, by the WED and in response to determining the difference, the crosshairs to compensate for the difference.

16. Wearable electronic glasses (WEG) worn on a head of a user with a rifle having an electronic scope, the WEG comprising:
a wireless receiver that communicates with the electronic scope that displays a point of aim (POA) of the rifle;
a display that displays the POA of the rifle and that moves the POA being displayed on the display in real-time with movements of the rifle; and
a processor that executes code to sight the rifle to a target by automatically moving where the POA is displayed on the display to compensate for changes to one or more shooting conditions that effect a trajectory of a bullet fired from the rifle, and
wherein the display of the WEG simultaneously displays the POA along with a desired target impact location (DTIL) on the target that shows a desired location where to hit the target with the bullet fired from the rifle.

17. The WEG of claim 16 further comprising:
one or more sensors that sense an orientation of the rifle, wherein the processor executes the code to activate and to deactivate a weapon targeting system (WTS) based on whether the orientation of the rifle is pointed to ground.

18. The WEG of claim 16 , wherein the processor executes the code to move a location where the POA is displayed

Assignees

• Lyren Philip

Inventors

• Lyren Philip

Classifications

• F41G3/323

  for checking the angle between the muzzle axis of the gun and a reference axis, e.g. the axis of the associated sighting device (testing alignment of axes in general G01B11/27) · CPC title

• F41G3/165

  using a TV-monitor · CPC title

• F41G3/142

  based on observation of a first shoot; using a simulated shoot (training F41G3/26) · CPC title

• F41G3/08 Primary

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

• F41G3/12

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