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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7277558 | Method and system for estimating the position of moving objects in images A method and system are disclosed for estimating a position of moving objects in a set of image data. In accordance with exemplary embodiments of the present invention, a position of an object is identified in a first frame of image data acquired at a first time. Th... | 10/02/2007 |
| 7231862 | Dual elevation weapon station and method of use A self-contained gimbaled weapon system (GWS) has a shared azimuth axis and two independent elevation axes for a sighting device and a weapon cradle. The GWS allows the weapon cradle to be elevated completely independent of the sighting device. The GWS can be stabil... | 06/19/2007 |
| 7121184 | Seating system for a weapon operator of a military vehicle A seating system for a weapon operator of a military vehicle such as a tank has adjustable chest and back supports which can be locked to secure the weapon operator in position with respect to weapon controls in spite of highly dynamic changes in the position of the... | 10/17/2006 |
| 7047863 | Remote aiming system with video display The present invention provides a powered aiming platform for pointing devices such as firearms, illumination devices, or sensing instruments, remotely controlled by a hand-controller device, with video feedback of the aiming position and audio feedback of the exact ... | 05/23/2006 |
| 6819237 | Automated fire protection system An apparatus and fire protection system for detecting and extinguishing a spark, flame, or fire on a heat sensitive explosive object, which identifies, locates and relays vital information related to the particular endangered explosive object. The invention can be u... | 11/16/2004 |
| 6802239 | Sponson tow plate-mounted helicopter armament apparatus and associated methods External armament apparatus, including a machine gun, an associated ammunition box for supplying belted ammunition to the gun, a flare dispenser, a missile launcher or other external stores apparatus, and a forward looking infrared sensor (FLIR), is exteriorly suppo... | 10/12/2004 |
| 6658985 | Site head with integrated laser designator for use in aircraft such as a rotorcraft Sight head with integrated laser designator for use in an aircraft such as a rotorcraft. The laser designator (32) is integrated into a zone of a main external assembly of the pod (14) of the sight head (12), enclosed externally in an existing fairing (34... | 12/09/2003 |
| 6502497 | Suspension device for connecting an item of on-board equipment to the structure of a vehicle, particularly a rotary-wing aircraft The present invention relates to a suspension device (4) for connecting an item of on-board equipment (2) to the structure (3) of a vehicle, particularly a rotary-wing aircraft, said suspension device (4) comprising first and second parts (5, 6) shaped in... | 01/07/2003 |
| 6380732 | Six-degree of freedom tracking system having a passive transponder on the object being tracked This invention discloses a system for tracking one or more objects (22) within a region of interest, including at least one electromagnetic field generator (20), fixed with respect to an external frame of reference, at least one passive transponder (30), ... | 04/30/2002 |
| 6145428 | Integrated fire and flight control system for controlling the angle of attack of a rotary wing aircraft An integrated fire and flight control system of the type which controls aircraft flight dynamics to referenced values defined by a weapon launch solution to provide optimum aircraft to target orientation, further optimizes the aircraft's angle of attack (... | 11/14/2000 |
| 5806789 | Optical apparatus for an aircraft A fairing for an aircraft is provided, having a roll axis with a turret coupled to the front end of the fairing for rotation about the roll axis. An opening is formed through the front end of the turret in which a tracking member is supported for rotation... | 09/15/1998 |
| 5617316 | Maintaining attitude error constant in Euler singularity protection A model-following aircraft control system in which a roll rate command in Euler coordinates is integrated to provide a bank angle command, which has actual bank angle subtracted therefrom to provide a command error that is converted back to aircraft body ... | 04/01/1997 |
| 5483865 | Aircraft sighting system The present invention relates to a sighting system for an aircraft, in particular a rotary wing aircraft such as a helicopter. According to the invention, the sighting system comprises, in combination, an observation first individual apparatus integrated ... | 01/16/1996 |
| 5461796 | Gunsight device for rotating-wing aircraft A gunsight device for a rotating-wing aircraft having a hollow rotor hub (1), on which there are radially mounted blades constituting said rotating wing, and which is connected to the main transmission box (2) by a drive shaft coaxial with the rotor of th... | 10/31/1995 |
| 5431084 | Helicopter integrated fire and flight control having azimuth and pitch control A fire control system (55) azimuth command and elevation command provides a flight control system attitude reference in response to operation of the flight control system in a coupled aiming mode. The coupled aiming mode is engaged in response to the cont... | 07/11/1995 |
| 5359920 | Munition impact point indicator and automatic gun aimpoint correction system RF energy radiated by impacting munition rounds is used to provide an indication to a gunner where the rounds from his gun are striking, or to control a gun servo (158) to automatically correct the aiming of the gun. The RF energy from the rounds is recei... | 11/01/1994 |
| 5331881 | Helicopter integrated fire and flight control having azimuth and pitch control A fire control system (55) azimuth command and elevation command provides a flight control system attitude reference in response to operation of the flight control system in a coupled aiming mode. The coupled aiming mode is engaged in response to the cont... | 07/26/1994 |
| 5310136 | Helicopter integrated fire and flight control having constraint limiting control During operation of an integrated fire and flight control (IFFC) system in a coupled aiming mode, the occurrence of a weapon (172), weapon mount (145) or sensor (146) reaching a constraint limit (210) indices a fade-in of a constraint limiting axis comman... | 05/10/1994 |
| 5310135 | Helicopter integrated fire and flight control having coordinated area bombing control During operation of a flight control system in a coordinated area bombing mode, one pair in a group of pairs of fire control azimuth coordinate error signal and elevation coordinate error signals are faded-in as the aircraft yaw attitude reference and pit... | 05/10/1994 |
| 5263662 | Helicopter integrated fire and flight control system having turn coordination control During operation of a flight control system in a coupled aiming mode, wherein a fire control system (55) azimuth command and elevation command provide an aircraft attitude reference, a bank angle calculation function (1077) provides a bank angle signal to... | 11/23/1993 |
| 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 |
| 5129309 | Electro-optic targeting system An electro-optic targeting system for use with a surface-to-air or air-to-air missile launching system is disclosed. The targeting system provides, in a head-up display type system, the capability of sight observation of a target object and video observat... | 07/14/1992 |
| 4878752 | Sighting system A gun sighting system in which a daylight (visual) sight and a thermal imaging (TI) night sight are mounted on the gun breech. The TI field of view is superimposed on the visual field of view, necessitating accurate alignment between their lines of sight ... | 11/07/1989 |
| 4729634 | Reflective head-up display A compact reflective head-up display incorporating first and second cooperative and converging mirror elements (34,18) one of which has a rear surface reflector (18), and the other of which (34) is partially transmissive and includes a central reflective ... | 03/08/1988 |
| 4698489 | Aircraft automatic boresight correction A boresight correction system is disclosed that determines the existing error between an aircraft gunsight and its gun systems while prescribed aircraft maneuvers are performed and which automatically corrects the gunsight system to compensate for this er... | 10/06/1987 |
| 4528891 | Firing control system for a direct firing weapon mounted on a rotary-wing aircraft Firing control system for a direct firing weapon mounted on a rotary-wing aircraft, which is designed to be actuated by the pilot himself and comprises an electronic computer, the said weapon being mounted for rotating about two transverse axes Y-Y' and Z... | 07/16/1985 |
| 4501187 | Vertical launch alignment transfer apparatus Apparatus for transferring azimuth alignment with modest accuracy to the dance systems of individual missiles in a pod configured for vertical launch. The apparatus includes a mechanical interface between two rods (attached to the missile and oriented to... | 02/26/1985 |
| 4394831 | Helmet metal mass compensation for helmet-mounted sighting system An electromagnetic system for determining the orientation including position of a helmet worn by a pilot is disclosed having a transmitting antenna for transmitting electromagnetic field vectors, a receiving antenna for sensing the electromagnetic field v... | 07/26/1983 |
| 4393597 | Stabilized sighting devices for vehicles A stabilized sighting device for use on a carrier comprises an outer unit mounted for rotation about a bearing axis which may be parallel to the yaw axis of the carrier. An intermediate unit is mounted for rotation on the outer unit about an elevation axi... | 07/19/1983 |
| 4312262 | Relative velocity gunsight system and method A system and method for providing a relative velocity sighting reference in an airborne gunsight system. A head-up display (HUD) frames the target in the pilot's line of sight and a computer-driven cathode ray tube (CRT) display projects an array of sight... | 01/26/1982 |
| 4310851 | Sighting device for rear firing on combat aircraft An aircraft is equipped with a rearwardly pointed television camera connected to an electronic receiver situated in front of the pilot. The image provided by the camera at the receiver appears in mirror reversed inverted or symmetrically opposite position... | 01/12/1982 |
| 4287809 | Helmet-mounted sighting system An electromagnetic system for determining the orientation including position of a helmet worn by a pilot is disclosed, having a transmitting antenna for transmitting electromagnetic field vectors, a receiving antenna for sensing the electromagnetic field ... | 09/08/1981 |
| 4202246 | Multiple co-axial optical sight and closed loop gun control system A sight system for providing closed-loop differential tracking control over gun aiming, utilizing visual and non-visual optical radiation to assist the gunner in acquiring and destroying targets as well as providing information to the gun control computer... | 05/13/1980 |
| 4167113 | Display systems A head-up display system for an aircraft has a display unit which projects a display of symbology representing the aircraft flight parameters onto a separately mounted partially-transparent reflector positioned in front of the aircraft pilot, so that the ... | 09/11/1979 |
| 4162646 | Target acquisition system An optical gunsight retractably mounted on the canopy rail of an aircraft having a luminous pip or reticle for sighting a target. The gunsight may be boresighted in azimuth and elevation to any onboard target designation system to aid in immediate target ... | 07/31/1979 |
| 4152969 | Fire control correction system for wind and target motion A fire control correction system for wind and target motion in an airborne ire control system which comprises using the gun slave resolver chain to perform trigonometric resolutions for wind and target motion corrections, in addition to normal function of ... | 05/08/1979 |
| 4145952 | Aircraft gun sight system and method for high angle-off attacks An aircraft gun sighting system and method for use in executing high angle-off attacks wherein a headup display unit employs a cathode ray tube for projecting sighting indicia on the pilot's sighting panel. The sighting indicia appear as a plurality of st... | 03/27/1979 |
| 4104730 | Boresight adjustment for a harmonic oscillator coordinate converter A harmonic oscillator coordinate converter in combination with analog and digital circuits is described which may accept signals indicative of a measured angle and of a misalignment angle to provide coordinate conversions of a vector through the measured ... | 08/01/1978 |
| 4062247 | Telescoping linkage for helicopter sight A mechanical linkage connected between a pilot's helmet and a reference point in an aircraft permitting freedom of movement of the pilot's head in three dimensions as he visually tracks a target. A set of metal tapes provides freedom of movement in the lo... | 12/13/1977 |
| 4047014 | Coordinate converter An electronically controlled coordinate converter for transforming vectors from a first coordinate system to a second coordinate system through an input angle is provided using a harmonic oscillator which is responsive to an oscillation angle control sign... | 09/06/1977 |
