Patent ID: 7703679

Claim:
A sighting system for visually acquiring a target, comprising: an optic device having at least one lens and an optical path therethrough; an input system operable to receive information; a ballistics program executable to provide a look-up table in response to information received by the input system; a range input to determine a range between the sighting system and the target; an aiming component incorporated into the optic device and superimposed over the view provided by the optic system, the aiming component having an array of one or more aiming elements, each aiming element being separately addressable and operable to provide an aiming point; and a controller communicatively coupled to the input system and operable to execute the ballistics program to correlate an aiming point from a standard reticle in a look-up table, the controller operable to calculate the aiming point from the standard reticle and the range input, the controller electrically connected to the aiming component to energize at least one of the two or more aiming elements to display the aiming point; wherein the aiming elements are light-generating elements on a transmissive plate located on the optical path and the aiming point generated by the energized aiming elements is spaced apart from and independent of any crosshairs visible to a user.