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US 11,776,169 B2Granted
Weapon targeting system
OwnerPhilip Lyreninventor
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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.
Claims19
A method, comprising:
- wirelessly receiving, at a head mounted display (HMD) worn on a head of a user with a rifle, video of a person captured with a camera mounted to the rifle;
- displaying, with a display of the HMD worn on the head of the user, the video of the person and crosshairs that show a point of aim of the rifle;
- and
- accentuating the person being displayed by displaying, with the display of the HMD worn on the head of the user, a virtual image over the person in order to highlight the person in the video captured with the camera mounted to the rifle,
- wherein the virtual image over the person includes virtual lines around a perimeter of the person, and the HMD displays the virtual image while also displaying the crosshairs over the person.
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A head mounted display (HMD) worn on a head of a user with a rifle, the HMD comprising:
- an interface that wirelessly receives, from an electronic scope mounted to the rifle, an image of a person captured with a camera of the electronic scope when a point of aim of the rifle is directed at the person;
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- a display that simultaneously displays crosshairs that show the point of aim of the rifle and displays an augmented reality (AR) image over the image of the person being displayed to enhance the person being displayed, wherein the AR image displayed over the image accentuates the person that is at least partially occluded.
A head mounted display (HMD) worn on a head of a user with a rifle, comprising:
- an interface that wirelessly receives, from an electronic scope mounted to the rifle, video of the point of aim of the rifle directed to a target;
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- a display that simultaneously displays, on the video, crosshairs that show the point of aim of the rifle and a desired target impact location (DTIL) on the target that shows a desired location where to hit the target with a bullet fired from the rifle, wherein the DTIL is different from the crosshairs and is the desired location where to hit the target with the bullet fired from the rifle.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.