Patent ID: 7810273

Claim:
A sighting mechanism for a firearm, comprising: at least two digital video cameras arranged on a firearm parallel to its barrel and to each other which record a same target sighting field, a video screen arranged in a sighting field of a marksman operating the firearm and arranged to display a target image that is recorded by the video cameras, a digital target distance meter, at least one sensor arranged to detect measurable environmental parameters, at least one sensor arranged to detect at least one of measurable cartridge and weapon parameters, at least one memory module, in which ammunition data of ammunition that can be discharged by the firearm is stored; and a digital computer unit having at least two video input interfaces for digital image data of the video cameras, for the distance meter, for the sensors, and for the memory module, and having an output interface for the video screen, whereby, aside from the target image recorded by the video cameras, the video screen displays an information for the marksman that supports the aiming and is calculated by the computer unit as a function of the data that is incoming by means of the input interfaces, the digital computer unit comprises an image processing computer that allows at least a selectable image portion of the image data received from the video cameras to be superimposed in a pixel precise fashion and in real-time to form a target image and to be displayed on the screen, and the digital computer unit comprises a ballistics computer that can be used to position the target image displayed on the screen and a graticule that is either faded into said target image or situated on the screen with respect to each other in an automatic manner and in real time according to the data that is incoming through the input interfaces such that the position of the graticule in the target image coincides with a real point of impact of a projectile from the firearm on the target.