Electronic sighting device with real-time information interaction

• US 9,702,662 B1
• Filed: 12/22/2015
• Issued: 07/11/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 12/22/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Huntercraft Limited
• Original Assignee: Huntercraft Limited
• Inventors: Zhang, Lin, Shi, Chunhua, Su, Sang
• Primary Examiner(s): HAYES, BRET C
• Application Number:
  US14/979,193
• Publication Number:
  US 20170176142A1
• Time in Patent Office: 567 Days
• Field of Search: 42111, 42113, 42119, 42122, 42123, 42130, 42131, 235404, 235414, 235417
• CPC Class Codes: F41G 1/38 Telescopic sights specially adapted for smallarms or ordnance telescopic sights in general G02B; Supports or mountings therefor
• CPC Class Codes: F41G 1/383 Protection means therefor
• CPC Class Codes: F41G 1/473 for lead-indicating or range-finding, e.g. for use with rifles or shotguns
• CPC Class Codes: F41G 11/001 Means for mounting tubular or beam shaped sighting or aiming devices on firearms
• CPC Class Codes: F41G 3/06 with rangefinder rangefinders per se G01C
• CPC Class Codes: F41G 3/08 with means for compensating for speed, direction, temperature, pressure, or humidity of the atmosphere measuring G01
• CPC Class Codes: F41G 3/142 based on observation of a first shoot; using a simulated shoot training F41G3/26
• CPC Class Codes: F41G 3/165 using a TV-monitor
• CPC Class Codes: F41G 3/32 Devices for testing or checking
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/55 Optical parts specially adapted for electronic image sensors; Mounting thereof
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/772 the recording apparatus and the television camera being placed in the same enclosure

Abstract

The present invention relates to a sighting device, and specifically relates to an electronic sighting device with real-time information interaction. The sighting device comprises a field-of-view obtaining unit, a display unit; a sighting circuit unit, a sensor module, a positioning unit, and an interaction unit, wherein shooting vibration of a gun is judged by a vibration sensor in the sensor module, and then, the interaction unit is connected with internet or a remote display terminal to send the real-time information acquired by the sensor module and/or image information acquired by the field-of-view obtaining unit during shooting process to the internet or the remote display terminal, to achieve information collection and recording of each-time shooting by the electronic sighting device and achieve real-time interaction of the collected information with the internet or the remote display terminal.

Claims

1. An electronic sighting device with real-time information interaction, comprising:

a field-of-view obtaining unit for acquiring an image information within a sighted field of view;

a display unit for displaying a reticle and the image information acquired by the field-of-view obtaining unit;

a sighting circuit unit for transferring the image information from the field-of-view obtaining unit to the display unit;

a sensor module for acquiring a movement information of the electronic sighting device and a real-time information of an environment;

an interaction unit connected with internet or a remote display terminal, wherein the interaction unit sends signals comprising the real-time information acquired by the sensor module and the image information acquired by the field-of-view obtaining unit during a shooting process to the internet or the remote display terminal; and

a power supply for supplying power to the electronic sighting device,

wherein the sensor module comprises a vibration sensor and a photoelectric sensor, and the vibration sensor is affixed to a bottom of the electronic sighting device away from a direction of sighting, and the photoelectric sensor is adapted to detect a movement of a trigger of a gun.

2. The electronic sighting device with real-time information interaction according to claim 1, wherein the vibration sensor comprises a vibration sensor housing that houses, nonexclusively, a piezoelectric vibrator, a signal processing substrate, and a switch.

3. The electronic sighting device with real-time information interaction according to claim 2, wherein the piezoelectric vibrator comprises a piezoelectric member and a vibration board, wherein the piezoelectric member is affixed to the vibration board and the vibration board is affixed to the vibration sensor housing.

4. The electronic sighting device with real-time information interaction according to claim 3, wherein both the piezoelectric member and the vibration board are in a shape of a flat plate, wherein the piezoelectric member has a dimension of 4 mm in length, 2 mm in width and 0.4 mm in thickness, and is made of lead zirconate titanate, wherein the vibration board has dimensions of 5 mm in length, 2.5 mm in width and 0.5 mm in thickness, and is made of copper phosphate, and the piezoelectric member has a surface area less than that of the vibration board and is affixed to the vibration board via a binding layer having a thickness not greater than 5 μ

m.

5. The electronic sighting device with real-time information interaction according to claim 4, wherein the piezoelectric member is provided with a first electrode on a surface thereof facing away from the vibration board, and the vibration board is provided with a second electrode on the surface thereof facing the piezoelectric member, and the first electrode and the second electrode are connected with the signal processing substrate, wherein the signal processing substrate comprises a charge and voltage conversion processing unit, a filter processing unit and a signal amplification processing unit, wherein the first electrode and the second electrode are connected to the charge and voltage conversion processing unit, the signal amplification processing unit is connected to the power supply of the electronic sighting device.

6. The electronic sighting device with real-time information interaction according to claim 1, wherein the photoelectric sensor comprises a photosignal emission end, a photosignal reception end, a photosignal conversion unit and a photoelectric sensor wireless emission end.

7. The electronic sighting device with real-time information interaction according to claim 6, wherein the photosignal emission end and the photosignal reception end are adapted to be installed on a trigger retainer on both side of a trigger so that, when the trigger is not pulled, a photosignal emitted from the photosignal emission end is received by the photosignal reception end, and when the trigger is pulled, the photosignal emitted from the photosignal emission end is blocked by the trigger, wherein the photosignal reception end is connected with the photoelectric sensor wireless emission end, which is connected to the sighting circuit unit via the photosignal conversion unit.

8. The electronic sighting device with real-time information interaction according to claim 1, wherein the sensor module further comprises one or more selected from a group consisting of a wind speed wind direction sensor, a geomagnetic sensor, a temperature sensor, an air pressure sensor, and a humidity sensor.

9. The electronic sighting device with real-time information interaction according to claim 8, wherein the vibration sensor acquires a vibration signal of a gun, and the photoelectric sensor acquires an electric signal converted from photosignals produced after the trigger is pulled and wherein the vibration signal and the electric signal are sent to a control unit of the sighting circuit.

10. The electronic sighting device with real-time information interaction according to claim 9, wherein, when the vibration signal and the electric signal are acquired at the same time, determining that a vibration is a shooting vibration, transmitting a shooting time information and a shooting position information to the internet or the remote display terminal;

and when the vibration signal and the varied electric signal are not acquired at the same time, determining that the vibration is a non-shooting vibration.

11. The electronic sighting device with real-time information interaction according to claim 1, wherein the image information acquired by the field-of-view obtaining unit on the sighting device is sent to the display terminal via internet or teletransmission.

12. The electronic sighting device with real-time information interaction according to claim 1, wherein the sighting device comprises a detachable housing that houses nonexclusively the field-of-view obtaining unit, the display unit, the sensor module, the power supply, and the sighting circuit unit;

and a protection unit disposed on and fastened to a front end of the housing.

13. The electronic sighting device with real-time information interaction according to claim 12, wherein the photoelectric sighting device further comprises a range-finding unit disposed in the housing for measuring a distance information from a sighted object to the photoelectric sighting device.

14. The electronic sighting device with real-time information interaction according to claim 12, wherein the photoelectric sighting device further comprises a first field-of-view regulating unit disposed on the display unit, a second field-of-view regulating unit disposed on the housing, a third field-of-view regulating unit connected to the housing that includes an external slot, an external connection line, and one or more external keys, the external keys being connected to the external slot through the external connection line;

one end of the external connection line is connected to the external slot, the other end comprises one or more end branches, each end branch being connected to an external key, wherein a U-shape security clip has one end fixedly or slidably on the external connection line.

15. The electronic sighting device with real-time information interaction according to claim 1, wherein the display unit also display nonexclusively one or more information among a wind speed data, a temperature data, a barometric data, and a magnetic field data, an elevation angle data, an azimuth angle data a battery level information, a wireless signal information, a remaining recording time information, a shift key, and a menu key.

16. The electronic sighting device with real-time information interaction according to claim 15, wherein the electronic sighting device further comprises a wireless transmission module wirelessly coupled to an external apparatus so that the reticle and information displayed on the display screen are displayed on the external apparatus simultaneously.

17. The electronic sighting device with real-time information interaction according to claim 1, wherein the sighting circuit unit comprises an interface board and a core board, a field-of-view drive circuit in the field-of-view obtaining unit, a range-finding control circuit in the range-finding unit, a key control circuit in the key unit, and a battery control circuit in the battery assembly, wherein the field-of-view drive circuit, the range-finding control circuit, and the key control circuit, and the battery control circuit are coupled with the core board through the interface board, the display driving circuit of the display unit being connected to the core board.

18. The electronic sighting device with real-time information interaction according to claim 17, wherein the core board has a memory card inserted therein, the memory card storing a bullet information database, an external ballistic 6-degree-of-freedom rigidity model, and a low trajectory ballistic model.

19. The electronic sighting device with real-time information interaction according to claim 18, wherein parameters inputted in the external ballistic 6-degree-of-freedom rigidity model are chosen from wind speed, wind direction, temperature, air pressure, humidity, longitude, latitude, and elevation coordinate of a shooting point, an initial velocity and a direction of the bullet at a gun barrel outlet, wherein the direction is represented by an elevation angle and an azimuth angle of the gun barre, a bullet-target distance obtained through the range-finding unit;

and a mass of a shot, a cross-section area of the shot, a mass eccentricity of the shot, a rotational inertia of the shot, or a resistance coefficient of the shot.

20. The electronic sighting device with real-time information interaction according to claim 1, wherein the electronic sighting device is configured for manual calibration and/or automatic simulated calibration.

21. The electronic sighting device with real-time information interaction according to claim 20, wherein the automatic simulated calibration simulates an impact point using the external ballistic 6-degree-of-freedom rigidity model or the low trajectory ballistic model and coincides the reticle with the simulated impact point.