APPARATUS, SYSTEM, AND METHOD FOR FIREARMS TRAINING

1 - 20 . (canceled)

21 . A system, comprising:

a target assembly having a reflective surface, the target assembly disposed at a wall of a shooting room;

a plurality of acoustic sensors disposed at the target assembly;

a line-of-sight barrier disposed in the shooting room; and

at least one optical sensor;

wherein the at least one optical sensor is configured to identify spatial coordinates of a first user and a second user of the system in the shooting room;

wherein the reflective surface is configured to reflect a reflected image of the first user at the second user; and

wherein the line-of-sight barrier is configured to block a direct line-of-sight between the first user and the second user.

22 . The system of claim 21 , wherein the target assembly includes sound-absorbing material.

23 . The system of claim 22 , wherein the target assembly includes a reflective layer including the reflective surface, the sound-absorbing material, and an impact plate.

24 . The system of claim 23 , wherein the sound-absorbing material is disposed between the reflective layer and the impact plate, and the sound-absorbing material abuts both the reflective layer and the impact plate.

25 . The system of claim 21 , wherein the at least one optical sensor includes a plurality of stereoscopic cameras and the plurality of acoustic sensors includes a plurality of microphones.

26 . The system of claim 25 , wherein the plurality of microphones is configured to locate a bullet impact point on the target assembly based on time of arrival extraction and triangulation computing.

27 . The system of claim 21 , wherein the line-of-sight barrier is a bulletproof barrier that is configured to be disposed between the first user and the second user, the line-of-sight barrier preventing projectiles from passing through the line-of-sight barrier.

28 . The system of claim 21 , wherein the reflected image of the first user on the target assembly is visible to the second user as a dynamically moving reflection of the first user.

29 . A method, comprising:

using a reflective surface of a target assembly to reflect an image of a first user at a first location to be visible as a reflected image on the reflective surface to a second user at a second location;

disposing a plurality of acoustic sensors at the target assembly;

acoustically sensing, using the plurality of acoustic sensors, a bullet impact location point on the target assembly of a bullet fired from a firearm of the second user at the reflected image of the first user; and

optically sensing a location of the first user and the second user;

wherein acoustically sensing the bullet impact location point includes calculating the bullet impact location point on the target assembly by triangulation based on a time of arrival of a bullet impact noise to each of the plurality of acoustic sensors.

30 . The method of claim 29 , wherein the time of arrival of the bullet impact noise to each of the plurality of acoustic sensors is a travel time of the bullet impact noise between a time of bullet impact on an impact plate of the target assembly and a time of arrival of the bullet impact noise at each of the plurality of acoustic sensors.

31 . The method of claim 29 , wherein calculating the bullet impact location point on the target assembly by triangulation includes determining a signal band for each of the plurality of acoustic sensors that includes the time of arrival of the bullet impact noise to each of the plurality of acoustic sensors.

32 . The method of claim 31 , further comprising dividing the signal band for each of the plurality of acoustic sensors into time intervals.

33 . The method of claim 32 , further comprising performing a triangulation for each time interval of each signal band for each of the plurality of acoustic sensors.

34 . The method of claim 29 , wherein the plurality of acoustic sensors includes six acoustic sensors and calculating the bullet impact location point on the target assembly by triangulation includes performing a triangulation of all triplets of the six acoustic sensors.

35 . The method of claim 29 , wherein the reflected image of the first user on the reflective surface is visible to the second user as a dynamically moving reflection of the first user.

36 . An impact shot tracking system, comprising:

an impact shot tracking module, comprising computer-executable code stored in non-volatile memory;

a processor;

an acoustic sensor array including six acoustic sensors;

an optical sensor array; and

a target assembly;

wherein the impact shot tracking module, the processor, the acoustic sensor array, the optical sensor array, and the target assembly are configured to:

reflect an image of a first user on the target assembly, the reflected image of the first user being visible to a second user;

sense a time at which a firearm of the second user is fired at the reflected image of the first user that is visible to the second user on the target assembly;

sense a projectile impact location point on the target assembly of a projectile fired from the firearm of the second user; and

determine a location of the reflected image of the first user on a reflective surface of the target assembly;

wherein sensing the projectile impact location point includes performing a triangulation of all triplets of the six acoustic sensors.

37 . The impact shot tracking system of claim 36 , further comprising a direct line-of-sight barrier that is a bulletproof barrier configured to block a direct line-of-sight between the first user and the second user.

38 . The impact shot tracking system of claim 36 , wherein the target assembly includes a reflective surface that is angled relative to the second user to reflect the reflected image of the first user at the second user.

39 . The impact shot tracking system of claim 38 , wherein determining the location of the reflected image of the first user on the reflective surface of the target assembly is based on using the optical sensor array to sense a location of the first user.

40 . The impact shot tracking system of claim 36 , wherein the optical sensor array is configured to sense a location of a barrel of the firearm.

41 . The impact shot tracking system of claim 36 , wherein performing the triangulation of all triplets of the six acoustic sensors is performed in real time throughout a shot sequence of the impact shot tracking system.