Cross-cut: `algo-emotion-recognition`

Axis: algorithms

5 corpus entries disclose this tag.

Earliest disclosure: 1968

Listed in chronological order. Each entry’s prior_art_notes and disclosure_citation constitute the citeable prior art material.

Blade Runner — the Voight-Kampff machine (contactless multi-physiological liveness/identity test) (1968)

id: blade-runner-voight-kampff
corpus: fictional
form factor: other
creator: Philip K. Dick
disclosure: Dick, Philip K. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? Doubleday, 1968 (film: Blade Runner, Warner Bros., 1982); a portable instrument that measures involuntary physiological responses — pupil dilation, ‘capillary dilation of the so-called blush response’, heart rate, micro-expression — under questioning, to classify a subject as human or replicant.
ip status: fictional
sensors: sensor-camera-ir, sensor-camera-eye
algorithms: algo-pupillometry, algo-hr, algo-emotion-recognition
prior art notes: Discloses a device that contactlessly measures multiple involuntary physiological signals from a person’s face (pupil dilation, blush/capillary response, heart rate, micro-expression) and fuses them into a binary classification of the subject. Relevant to remote-photoplethysmography / pupillometry / ‘deception or liveness detection’ claims combining ‘contactless facial imaging’, ‘extraction of two or more involuntary physiological signals’, and ‘a classification of the subject’. § 103 motivation as of 1968. Cf. [[psycho-pass-cymatic-scan]], [[gattaca-biometric-checkpoints]].

id: emotiv-epoc-2009
corpus: private
form factor: headband
creator: Emotiv Systems
disclosure: Emotiv Systems. ‘EPOC’ EEG headset, released December 2009 — a 14-channel (plus 2 reference) wireless headset with saline-felt electrodes covering frontal/temporal/parietal/occipital sites, with SDKs for mental-command, facial-expression and ‘affective’ detections.
ip status: patented
sensors: sensor-saline-eeg-electrode, sensor-eeg
algorithms: algo-cognitive-workload, algo-emotion-recognition, algo-bci-motor-imagery
prior art notes: Discloses a wireless multi-channel (14+2) consumer EEG headset with saline-wetted contact electrodes at standard scalp sites and on-device/SDK classifiers for mental commands, facial expressions, and affective states. Anticipates multi-channel consumer-EEG-headset claims combining ‘a wireless head-worn array of ≥8 contact electrodes’, ‘wet/saline electrode coupling’, and ‘classification of cognitive/affective state or intent’ from 2009. Product-side anchor for the headband/cap × EEG cross-cut.

id: her-samantha-earpiece
corpus: fictional
form factor: earbud
creator: Spike Jonze / Annapurna Pictures
disclosure: Her (Annapurna Pictures / Warner Bros.), 2013; the in-ear earpiece through which the wearer continuously converses with an adaptive AI assistant (‘Samantha’) that infers the wearer’s emotional state from voice and context.
ip status: fictional
sensors: sensor-microphone-air
algorithms: algo-emotion-recognition
prior art notes: Discloses an habitually-worn in-ear device that is the user’s continuous interface to a conversational AI assistant, including the assistant inferring the user’s emotional/affective state from voice prosody and conversational context. Relevant to hearable claims combining ‘an in-ear device’, ‘a microphone’, ‘a wireless link to a conversational agent’, and ‘affect estimation from captured speech’. § 103 motivation that the always-worn AI-assistant earbud with affect sensing was an articulated objective by 2013.

id: black-mirror-playtest-implant
corpus: fictional
form factor: implantable
creator: Charlie Brooker / House of Tomorrow
disclosure: Black Mirror, ‘Playtest’ (Netflix, 21 October 2016); a behind-the-ear implant (‘the mushroom’) renders mixed-reality content directly into the player’s perception and adapts it in real time to the player’s measured fears and physiological responses.
ip status: fictional
algorithms: algo-emotion-recognition
prior art notes: Discloses an implanted mixed-reality device that both renders content into the wearer’s perception and continuously measures the wearer’s affective state (fear), closing a loop so the content adapts to the measured response. Relevant to closed-loop AR/VR claims combining ‘rendering immersive content’, ‘biometric/affect sensing of the user’, and ‘adapting the content to the sensed state’. § 103 motivation that the affect-adaptive immersive device was an articulated objective by 2016.

id: stark-iron-spider-suit
corpus: fictional
form factor: garment
creator: Marvel Studios / Sony Pictures
disclosure: Spider-Man: Homecoming (Marvel Studios / Sony), released July 7, 2017; the Stark-built suit with an in-mask heads-up display, an integrated conversational AI (‘Karen’), distributed suit sensors, environmental analysis, biometric monitoring of the wearer, a deployable drone, and configurable web-shooter telemetry.
ip status: fictional
sensors: sensor-camera-rgb, sensor-accelerometer, sensor-microphone-air
algorithms: algo-emotion-recognition
prior art notes: Discloses a smart full-body garment integrating: an in-mask near-eye HUD; a conversational AI assistant resident in the suit; distributed suit sensors and environmental analysis (object/person identification, threat assessment); biometric monitoring of the wearer (HR, respiration, stress); and reconfigurable actuator/output settings. Relevant to smart-garment and helmet-HUD claims combining ‘a body-worn garment with distributed sensors’, ‘a head-mounted display presenting environmental and physiological data’, ‘a voice AI’, and ‘wearer biometric monitoring’. § 103 motivation that the integrated sensing/HUD/AI body suit was an articulated objective by 2017.