Auto-correcting bow sight

Abstract

A bow sight automatically corrects and compensates for various dynamically changing aiming, shooting, and/or environmental conditions. The bow sight can perform situation-specific aim evaluations and corrections to correct or compensate for situation-specific shooting and environmental factors, at a given time and on a per-shot basis. The bow sight includes integrated sensor-type devices, such as a range finder, an inclinometer, and an anemometer, which detects values of situation-specific shooting and environmental factors and communicates such detected values with a processor or other control device. The processor uses the situational specific data, as well as bow and arrow performance data, and data from shot calibrations, to calculate precise vertical and horizontal aim compensations required to accurately hit the desired target point. The bow sight displays a new crosshair, dot, or multiple dot set, to direct the archer to a situation-specific aiming point for the most accurate shot under those particular circumstances.

We claim: 
     
         1 . An auto-correcting bow sight, comprising:
 (A) a range finder supported on a bow incorporating the auto-correcting bow sight, the range finder determining range to target information;   (B) a processor supported on the bow and receiving information from the range finder;   (C) multiple aim indicators that are operably connected to the processor, wherein the processor controls which of the multiple aim indicators is displayed at a given time based on the range to target information; and   (D) a manually actuated input device that is operably connected to the processor and that can be actuated for beginning an evaluation by the processor that determines which of the multiple aim indicators to display based on the range to target information, and wherein the manually actuated input device is arranged upon the bow to allow actuation of the input device by an archer when the bow is in either an undrawn or a fully drawn position.