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US 4,063,815 AGranted
Apparatus and method for optical tracking and aiming
AssigneeDr. -Ing. Ludwig Pietzsch
InventorsJoachim Wilken, Karl-Heinz Wiemer, Harald Kauer
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Abstract
The invention relates to an apparatus and method for optical tracking and aiming from a movable system, such as a vehicle. The apparatus may comprise a viewing device having a sighting mark moveable responsive to the position of an aiming mechanism control. The sighting mark may be superimposed on a field of vision observable in the viewing device, by stroboscopic illumination.
Claims5
An apparatus for optically tracking an object and indicating the alignment of an aimable device including:
- viewing means for making visual observations of the object, said means having a field of vision;
- a sighting mark superimposed on the field of vision;
- and,
- means for operatively coupling said sighting mark and aimable device so that the position of said sighting mark on the field of vision corresponds to the alignment of the aimable device, said viewing means including a plurality of periscopic deflection viewing devices radially distributed about a center of observation and rotated about the center of observation at a speed exceeding the temporal resolving power of the human eye in order to transmit an image of the object to a protected position.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.