System for elevated speed firearms training scenarios

• US 9,638,495 B2
• Filed: 08/08/2013
• Issued: 05/02/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 08/30/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Conflict Kinetics LLC
• Original Assignee: Conflict Kinetics Corp.
• Inventors: Stanley, Brian
• Primary Examiner(s): Utama, Robert J
• Assistant Examiner(s): Fletcher, Jerry-Daryl
• Application Number:
  US13/962,886
• Publication Number:
  US 20130316309A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,363 Days
• Field of Search: 434 11, 434 16, 434 21, 434 22, 463 2, 463 5, 463 23, 463 49, 463 51- 53
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/16 Devices for psychotechnics using teaching or educational appliances G09B1/00 - G09B7/00; Testing reaction times ; Devices for evaluating the psychological state
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/162 Testing reaction times
• CPC Class Codes: F41A 33/00 Adaptations for training adaptations of barrels for recoil reinforcement F41A21/26; Gun simulators teaching or practice apparatus for gun-aiming or gun-laying F41G3/26 ; shooting games A63F9/02; military simulation G09B9/003
• CPC Class Codes: F41G 3/26 Teaching or practice apparatus for gun-aiming or gun-laying shooting games A63F9/02; light- or radiation-emitting guns F41A33/02; targets therefor F41J; responders, transponders for radar, sonar, lidar G01S13/767, G01S15/74, G01S17/74
• CPC Class Codes: F41G 3/2627 Cooperating with a motion picture projector
• CPC Class Codes: F41G 3/2655 in which the light beam is sent from the weapon to the target
• CPC Class Codes: G09B 19/00 Teaching not covered by other main groups of this subclass teaching or practice apparatus for gun-aiming or gun-laying F41G3/26

Abstract

A system and method advance human performance in sighting, tracking, recognizing, and reacting to (collectively “engaging”) moving and stationary objects, for example, advancing skill in engaging targets with a firearm. System components include software and hardware that provide target and non-target image stimuli that can be manually or automatically generated as stationary or moving stimuli on a grid pattern. The system includes a database including a plurality of training scenarios, each training scenario including a sequence of stimuli, the sequence of stimuli including targets for the trainee to engage; a display for the presentation of the sequence of stimuli; and a data processor generating the presentation of the sequence of stimuli on the display, providing an operator interface, and providing performance reporting. The sequence of stimuli can include a range of difficulty of engagement, for example, an increasing period, a plateau period, and a final period.

Claims

1. A system for conditioning a trainee'"'"'s firearms skills, comprising:

a database including a plurality of training scenarios, each training scenario including a sequence of stimuli, the sequence of stimuli including targets for the trainee to engage;

a display for the presentation of the sequence of stimuli to the trainee;

a data processor generating the presentation of the sequence of stimuli on the display, providing an operator interface, and providing performance reporting;

a firearm for engagement of targets by trainee; and

a firearm sensor coupled to the data processor, the firearm sensor and data processor determining the aimpoint of the firearm relative to the display and targets; and

wherein the operator interface provides selection of one of the plurality of training scenarios, each of the plurality of training scenarios including;

a grid pattern displayed on the display with the targets for the trainee to engage, wherein the grid pattern is visually fixed relative to the targets such that the orientation and placement of the grid pattern is independent to movement of the aimpoint of the firearm;

a stimulus type;

an initial delay period; and

an initial stimulus speed; and

wherein the sequence of stimuli includes providing a range of difficulty of engagement, including at least one of incrementally reducing a period of time that each stimuli is displayed and incrementally reducing a period of time between the display of one stimulus ending and the display of a subsequent stimulus beginning.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the presentation of the sequence of stimuli on the display range up to at least about 90 degrees left and right of center of the trainee.

3. The system of claim 1, wherein the operator interface provides for modification of stimulus type, initial delay period, and initial stimulus speed.

4. The system of claim 1, wherein the first and each subsequent target remains displayed until fired upon by the trainee with the firearm.

5. The system of claim 1, wherein the first and each subsequent target remains displayed for a set interval of time whether or not fired upon by the trainee with the firearm.

6. The system of claim 1, wherein one of the plurality of training scenarios includes a sequence of stimuli comprising a first target displayed at center front of trainee, and subsequent targets displayed at incrementally increasing angles alternatingly right and left of the first target.

7. The system of claim 6, wherein the subsequent targets alternate vertically above and below of the first target.

8. The system of claim 6, wherein the subsequent targets continue until the increasing angles is about 90 degrees right and left of center front of the trainee.

9. The system of claim 1, wherein one of the plurality of training scenarios includes a sequence of stimuli comprising a first target displayed at center front of trainee, and subsequent sets of targets displayed, each set of targets including targets alternating between center front and either the right or left side of center front, and each subsequent set of targets alternating to a side opposite that used for the previous set.

10. The system of claim 9, wherein the number of targets included in at least two subsequent sets of targets is equal.

11. The system of claim 1, wherein the firearm includes a laser emitter.

12. The system of claim 1, wherein providing the range of difficulty of engagement includes changing a speed of movement of each stimulus.

13. The system of claim 1, wherein the presentation of the sequence of stimuli on the display include changes in elevation of the stimuli on the display.

14. The system of claim 1, further comprising a firearm sensor for determining the aimpoint of a firearm on the display, the firearm used by the trainee to engage the targets.

15. The system of claim 1, wherein the data processor further measures and the performance reporting includes number of targets hit, time to hit, accuracy of shots, and improvement in performance over a baseline.

16. The system of claim 1, wherein the initial stimulus speed is zero.

17. The system of claim 1, further comprising a gas discharge device that replaces a bolt and magazine of the firearm and provides action of the firearm mechanism and simulated acoustics and recoil of firing.

18. A system for conditioning a trainee'"'"'s firearms skills, comprising:

a database including a plurality of training scenarios, each training scenario including a sequence of stimuli, the sequence of stimuli including targets for the trainee to engage;

a display for the presentation of the sequence of stimuli to the trainee;

a data processor generating the presentation of the sequence of stimuli on the display, providing an operator interface, and providing performance reporting;

a firearm for engagement of targets by trainee; and

a firearm sensor coupled to the data processor, the firearm sensor and data processor determining the aimpoint of the firearm relative to the display and targets; and

wherein the operator interface provides selection of one of the plurality of training scenarios, each of the plurality of training scenario including;

a display scene;

a stimulus type;

an initial delay period; and

an initial stimulus speed;

wherein the sequence of stimuli includes a range of difficulty of engagement; and

wherein the sequence of stimuli includes at least three periods each including a plurality of stimuli, the at least three periods including an increasing period, a plateau period, and a final period; and

the final period having a level of difficulty of engagement that is lower than a level of difficulty for the plateau period, and that is higher than an initial level of difficulty for the increasing period.

19. The system of claim 18, wherein the firearm includes a laser emitter.

20. The system of claim 18, wherein the display scene comprises a grid pattern displayed on the display with the targets for the trainee to engage.

21. The system of claim 18, wherein the initial stimulus speed is zero.

22. A system for conditioning a trainee'"'"'s firearms skills, comprising:

a database including a plurality of training scenarios, each training scenario including a sequence of stimuli, the sequence of stimuli including targets for the trainee to engage;

a display for the presentation of the sequence of stimuli to the trainee;

a data processor generating the presentation of the sequence of stimuli on the display, providing an operator interface, and providing performance reporting;

a firearm for engagement of targets by trainee; and

a firearm sensor coupled to the data processor, the firearm sensor and data processor determining the aimpoint of the firearm relative to the display and targets; and

wherein the operator interface provides selection of one of the plurality of training scenarios, each of the plurality of training scenarios including;

a grid pattern displayed on the display with the targets for the trainee to engage, the grid pattern visually fixed relative to the targets such that the orientation and placement of the grid pattern is independent to movement of the aimpoint of the firearm;

a stimulus type;

an initial delay period;

an initial stimulus speed; and

wherein the sequence of stimuli includes at least four consecutive stimuli for which each stimuli appears in a location that is progressively further displaced from the appearance location of the immediately preceding stimuli than was the immediately preceding appearance displacement of consecutive stimuli.

23. The system of claim 22, further comprising a gas discharge device that replaces a bolt and magazine of the firearm and provides action of the firearm mechanism and simulated acoustics and recoil of firing.

24. The system of claim 22, wherein the at least four consecutive stimuli each of an appearance location that alternates between left and right of a center of the display.