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US 12,111,181 B2Granted
Laser-based rangefinding instrument
AssigneesLaser Technology, Inc., Kama-Tech (HK) Limited
InventorsJordan T. Vermillion, Scott M. Peterson, Neil T. Heeke, Eric A. Miller, Jeremy G. Dunne, David W. Williams
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Abstract
A laser-based rangefinding instrument for, inter alia, golfing or hunting activities having an unique ergonomic design and an external multi-function switch for controlling display brightness, selectable display of differing distance units and a slope selection switch for enabling display of line of sight distance or angle of slope and “Compensated Golf Distance” slope distance to a target.
Claims8
A method for displaying information to a user of a hand holdable laser-based rangefinding instrument comprising:
- aiming said rangefinding instrument to a plurality of selected points remote from said rangefinding instrument inclusive of a desired target point of interest in said user's optical field of view through a laser ranging signal reception port of said instrument;
- determining with said rangefinding instrument distance measurements between said rangefinding instrument and said selected points inclusive of said target point of interest;
- overlaying said selected points on said optical field of view for said user;
- displaying said selected points in an in-sight graphical display device of said rangefinding instrument;
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- visually associating at least a portion of said determined distance measurements to corresponding portions of said selected points in said display device.
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