Team trainer

• US 5,213,503 A
• Filed: 11/05/1991
• Issued: 05/25/1993
• Est. Priority Date: 11/05/1991
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: the united states of america as represented by the secretary of the navy
• Original Assignee: the united states of america as represented by the secretary of the navy
• Inventors: Purvis, Edward J., McCormack, Robert T., Wolff, Ronald S., Marshall, Albert H.
• Primary Examiner(s): Apley, Richard J.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Cheng, Joe H.
• Application Number:
  US07/788,068
• Time in Patent Office: 567 Days
• Field of Search: 434/16-24, 434/27, 434/43, 434/337, 358/93, 358/104, 358/87, 273/310-316, 273/437, 273/DIG. 28, 250/208.1, 250/330
• US Class Current: 434/22
• CPC Class Codes: F41G 3/2633 using a TV type screen, e.g. a CRT, displaying a simulated target

Abstract

The apparatus is an interactive, scenario based simulator for training a pons team in close encounter combat. Employed is a large screen projection system, a plurality of trainee positions, and means to remove aggressor images when neutralized by the team, to provide an apparent threat to the trainees from the simulated aggressors, and to track each trainees performance throughout the training scenario.

Claims

1. An interactive, scenario based simulator for training a weapons team in close encounter combat, having a large screen projection system, a plurality of trainee positions, and means to remove aggressor images when neutralized by the team, to provide an apparent threat to the trainees from the simulated aggressors, and to track each trainees performance throughout the training scenario, comprising:

at least one trainee operable simulated weapon having a source of infrared radiation boresighted to the sightline of the weapon for designating the aim-point of the weapon on the screen of said projection system;

apparatus to selectively irradiate a plurality of predetermined areas occupied by said at least one trainee in coordination with sensory cues detectable by said at least one trainee, comprising an arena of predetermined areas occupied by said at least one trainee, means for providing said sensory cues selectively to said areas, means for irradiating the areas that are being provided said sensor cues, and means at each of said at least one trainee for determining when said at least one trainee is being irradiated;

apparatus that provides tracking of a source of radiation to continuously monitor its movement, comprising optical means having a field of view and having said source of radiation within its field of view, for receiving radiation rom said source, transmitting it and focusing it at a preselected distance optically downstream, electrically-biased means at said preselected distance optically downstream said optical means for sensing said radiation transmitted by said optical means and providing a plurality of signal outputs that identify the orthogonal location at said electrically-biased means of the focused radiation, and optical processing means coupled to said electrically-biased means for receiving and determining from said plurality of signal outputs the location orthogonally of said source within said field of view;

apparatus to display a scenario and to remove an active image from the scenario in response to action by said at least one trainee that predeterminedly qualifies as successful, comprising an electronically prerecorded scenario on optical disc of at least one action video segment having a plurality of frames and an image therein that moves, and at least one still video segment of background, means for generating a window for each action segment around the image and its movement that represents the live action venue in the video, means for displaying the window of a selected said action video segment by open a live video window within a selected said still video segment, and means for removing the window of displayed action video by closing said live video window; and

processing means for controlling said simulated weapons, said apparatus to irradiate, said apparatus that provides tracking and said apparatus to display and remove.