Patent ID: 6363223
Filing Date: 2002-03-26
Classification: F41A,F41C,F41G,G03B,H04N

Abstract:
A photographic firearm apparatus, comprising:digital photography means for capturing, processing and storing at a predetermined frame rate, a sequential plurality of photographic image frames of a target image; firing detecting and signaling means for detecting a time zero when a firearm to which said firearm apparatus is attached has been fired and generating a firing signal in response thereto; timing control computer means for receiving said firing signal from said firing detecting means at said time zero and, based thereon, substantially establishing times at which each of said photographic image frames is captured relative to said time when said firearm has been fired; and image timing designation means for specifying at least one firing-based designated time in relation to said time zero, wherein at least one image frame captured substantially at said firing-based designated time is thereby saved.