227 results about "Line-of-sight" patented technology

Systems and methods are provided to selectively measure one or more conditions, such as temperature, wind speed, and angle of inclination, that may assist a golfer in making a play. If it is not permissible to present to the golfer additional information (e.g., an adjusted distance, temperature, wind speed, or a suggested club) that may assist a golfer in making a play, only a line-of-sight distance to a target on a golf course may be displayed. Modular rangefinders are also provided in which a dongle is coupled to a rangefinder to provide unique functionality. For example, a TGR™ dongle may provide golf specific functionality, such as calculating an adjusted distance that the golfer may use to play an inclined shot and a TBR® dongle may provide hunting specific functionality, such as calculating an equivalent horizontal distance that a hunter may use for precise shooting on an incline.

A firearm sighting system includes a rear sight unit having a plurality of separate sight elements adaptable for “zeroing” the same gun with different ammunition. In preferred embodiments, a rear sight unit comprises windage and elevation adjustments for each of two sight elements, so that multiple ammunition types having different trajectories may be fired accurately from a single firearm after zeroing-in one of the plurality of sight elements for each of the different ammunition types. Preferably, the separate sight elements may be connected to each other or to a common pivot arm or movable bracket so that moving one sight element into the sight path automatically removes the other from the line of vision. Elevation adjustments may be done in various ways, for example, by sliding sight elements out along an arm or bracket, or by changing an angle of the arm or bracket relative to the firearm. The preferred sighting system also includes an elevation-adjustable front sight unit, which may act as an extension member for gross adjustment of the front end of the firearm by significantly lowering the barrel position for a given line of sight between the user's eye, the selected rear sight, and the front sight. Alternatively, the rear sight unit multiple sight elements may comprise only one that is windage adjustable and elevation adjustable, which rear sight unit may cooperate with a front sight unit that has one sight element that is windage adjustable and elevation adjustable.

A system to detect obstacles includes a power beam transmission circuit, a power beam reception circuit arranged to receive a power beam from the power beam transmission circuit, an emitter module, and a detector module arranged to distinguish between a first characteristic and a second characteristic. The emitter module includes a first emitter arranged to emit a first signal having the first characteristic, the first signal emitted in proximity to the power beam, and a second emitter arranged to emit a second signal having the second characteristic, the second characteristic different from the first characteristic, the second signal emitted in proximity to the first signal. The detector module includes a first detector arranged to respond to the first signal emitted by the first emitter, wherein the detector module is arranged to determine when an obstacle is in or near a line-of-sight transmission path between the first emitter and the first detector.

Systems and methods for guiding an object may comprise improved guidance laws that improve the effectiveness of the PRONAV guidance law. The improved guidance laws may utilize the same parameters as the PRONAV law and may be algorithmically simpler than conventional guidance laws because they may not be based on information about an intercept point or time-to-go. The improved guidance laws may be developed based on the Lyapunov method. The improved guidance laws may augment the PRONAV law and may provide additional components based on the negative definiteness of the derivative of the Lyapunov function. The additional components may be determined based on the partial stability of the guidance system dynamics under consideration with respect to the line of sight derivative. A comparative analysis of the improved guidance laws with the PRONAV laws, for example, may show that the improved guidance laws guarantee shorter homing time requirements and larger capture areas. The object may comprise a tactical or strategic weapon, including, for example, a guided missile.

The invention relates to a flight track processing method for chain points and a whole chain of high voltage wires. In combination of multiple characteristics of high voltage wire targets and through data analysis and processing, the problems of positioning and detecting the high voltage wires are effectively solved; by the method, references can be provided for crash prevention and navigation of a low-altitude aircraft in poor sight line environment and risks of low-altitude flight are effectively reduced; the difficulty of analyzing and detecting the positions of the high voltage wires is overcome; the various high voltage wires are taken as a whole, a special flight track processing algorithm is adopted; in combination with a flight track processing algorithm on iron tower points, a relationship between the flight tracks and point tracks of the high voltage wires is skillfully processed; the output stability of the flight tracks of the high voltage wires is greatly improved; the output instability caused by platform jitter and point glittering of the high voltage wires are effectively solved; and the flight track processing difficulty of the high voltage wires is effectively solved.