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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8020769 | Handheld automatic target acquisition system A target acquisition system. The novel system includes a housing, a first mechanism for obtaining position coordinates of the housing, a second mechanism for measuring a pointing angle from the housing toward a target, and a third mechanism for calculating coordinat... | 09/20/2011 |
| 7220535 | Marking and authenticating articles Disclosed herein are methods and apparatus for providing markings upon objects, including the read side of an optical information media, where the markings do not substantially interfere with object, including the use of the optical information media. This invention... | 05/22/2007 |
| 7103781 | OPTICAL DISK, AN OPTICAL DISK BARCODE FORMING METHOD, AN OPTICAL DISK REPRODUCTION APPARATUS, A MARKING FORMING APPARATUS, A METHOD OF FORMING A LASER MARKING ON AN OPTICAL DISK, AND A METHOD OF MANUFACTURING AN OPTICAL DISK Disclosed is an optical disk barcode forming method wherein, as information to be barcoded, position information for piracy prevention, which is a form of ID, is coded as a barcode and is recorded by laser trimming on a reflective film in a PCA area of an optical di... | 09/05/2006 |
| 5616903 | Electronic rangefinder apparatus A rangefinder for scopes and binoculars in which a transparent display has a scale or other height-determining member to determine the height of the object viewed through the display and compare with a known object height selectively displayed on the same... | 04/01/1997 |
| 5386308 | Weapon aiming device having microlenses and display element Material made up of a thin layer between two surfaces, a first and a second, to be used as the third layer of a transparent goggles face, the first layer being a screen and the second layer being a thickness layer, remarkable in that the material consists... | 01/31/1995 |
| 5375072 | Microcomputer device with triangulation rangefinder for firearm trajectory compensation A computerized instrument for displacing the aiming mark of a rifle or other small arm to compensate for ballistic trajectory, comprising a digital microcomputer, a triangulation rangefinder range data inputting system, a system for inputting data for a p... | 12/20/1994 |
| 5171933 | Disturbed-gun aiming system A manually movable gun is mounted to a platform with a limited range of correctional computer-controlled updated reorientation in azimuth and in elevation with respect to the platform. The platform fixedly mounts a sighting-rangefinder system, so that cor... | 12/15/1992 |
| 4914604 | Processor for analyzing angle-only data An analog associative processor (12) discriminates between intersects representing targets and intersects representing ghosts from angle-only information from multiple sensors (10). The analog associative processor (12) is constructed using a multi-layer ... | 04/03/1990 |
| 4755959 | Circuit arrangement for calculating a visual distance in a digitally stored ground model A circuit arrangement for calculating a visual line of sight distance in digitally stored model. A distance long the line of sight is calculated by stepping radially outward along the line of sight. The step sizes which are chosen are selected based on th... | 07/05/1988 |
| 4494198 | Gun fire control systems A gun fire control system comprises a computer (15) having a first memory (15A) preprogrammed with true range to standard ballistic range conversion data and is operable on receipt of a true range value from a rangefinder (16) to output the corresponding ... | 01/15/1985 |
| 3982246 | General method of geometrical passive ranging 1. A passive ranging system for use by a fighter in determining the dista along the line of sight between the fighter and a target travelling at constant speed; comprising in combination: a search and track system operable to generate signals proportiona... | 09/21/1976 |
