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Date of Patent:
Nov. 11, 2025

Filed:

Oct. 14, 2021
Applicant:

Bae Systems Information and Electronic Systems Integration Inc., Nashua, NH (US);

Inventors:

Stephen P. Delmarco, North Andover, MA (US);

Simone B. Bortolami, Belmont, MA (US);

Helen F. Webb, Malden, MA (US);

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
F41G 3/14 (2006.01); F41G 3/26 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
F41G 3/142 (2013.01); F41G 3/26 (2013.01);
Abstract

A method of determining a point-of-impact of a ballistic projectile comprising: within a predetermined site using a weapon comprising a barrel, a camera, and an IMU configured to provide data concerning barrel attitude: detecting a firing event associated with the weapon; obtaining metadata associated with the weapon; determining estimated pointing angles of the weapon; obtaining a reference image of the site; culling portions of the reference image not associated with the estimated pointing angles, creating a culled reference image; projecting the culled reference image onto an image plane; obtaining an image from the weapon-mounted camera, the image being centered on the pointing direction weapon at the time of firing; registering the image from the weapon-mounted camera with the culled reference image; and calculating the true pointing angles of the weapon based on the alignment of the image obtained by the weapon-mounted camera with the culled reference image.


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