Cross-cut: `body-camera`

Axis: form_factor

5 corpus entries disclose this tag.

Earliest disclosure: 1986-07-18

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

Aliens — Colonial Marine helmet camera with live command feed (1986-07-18)

id: aliens-marine-helmet-cam
corpus: fictional
form factor: helmet
creator: James Cameron / 20th Century Fox
disclosure: Aliens (20th Century Fox), released July 18, 1986; each Colonial Marine’s helmet carries a camera and light that streams live video to a remote tactical console where a commander monitors all squad feeds simultaneously and issues instructions.
ip status: fictional
sensors: sensor-camera-rgb
prior art notes: Discloses head-worn cameras on multiple wearers each streaming live first-person video over a wireless link to a single remote monitoring station that displays all feeds and supports two-way command communication — i.e. the body-worn-camera-to-remote-command-center system. Relevant to claims combining ‘a head- or body-worn camera’, ‘wireless transmission of the video to a remote device’, and ‘a console displaying multiple wearers’ feeds for supervision’. § 103 motivation that networked body-worn camera supervision was an articulated objective by 1986, prior to the modern body-camera and tele-supervision patent space.

id: robocop-targeting-hud
corpus: fictional
form factor: helmet
creator: Paul Verhoeven / Orion Pictures
disclosure: RoboCop (Orion Pictures), released July 17, 1987; the cyborg officer’s helmet-integrated heads-up display providing targeting reticles, continuous video recording of the wearer’s view, and real-time identification of persons against a records database.
ip status: fictional
sensors: sensor-camera-rgb
prior art notes: Discloses a helmet-integrated near-eye HUD that (a) overlays targeting/aiming graphics on the wearer’s view, (b) continuously records that view, and (c) performs real-time identification of people in view by querying a records database and displaying the match. Relevant to helmet/eyewear claims combining ‘a head-mounted display’, ‘an outward camera’, ‘video recording’, and ‘on-view person identification against a database’. § 103 motivation that the recording, identifying helmet HUD was an articulated objective by 1987.

id: snow-crash-gargoyle-rig
corpus: fictional
form factor: glasses
creator: Neal Stephenson
disclosure: Stephenson, Neal. Snow Crash. Bantam Books, 1992 — the ‘gargoyles’: people wearing head-mounted display goggles, body-worn computers, and continuous-capture sensors, with voice query and head tracking.
ip status: fictional
sensors: sensor-camera-rgb, sensor-microphone-air, sensor-accelerometer
prior art notes: Discloses an integrated head-worn AR rig: near-eye display goggles + body-worn processor + always-on cameras and microphones + head-tracking, with voice queries against a networked database and continuous capture/upload of the wearer’s surroundings. Relevant to AR-glasses claims combining ‘a near-eye display’, ‘an outward-facing camera’, ‘an inertial sensor for head pose’, ‘a microphone for voice input’, and ‘continuous data capture/transmission’. § 103 motivation that the always-on capture-and-query AR wearable was a concrete objective by 1992. Non-enabling; pair with enabling HMD/SLAM art.

id: the-circle-seechange-and-health-wristbands
corpus: fictional
form factor: bracelet
creator: Dave Eggers
disclosure: Eggers, Dave. The Circle. Alfred A. Knopf, 2013 (film adaptation 2017); ‘SeeChange’ miniature wearable/mountable cameras streaming continuously, and employee wristbands (worn in pairs on each wrist) that continuously monitor heart rate, activity, sleep, and other physiological data and upload it to the company.
ip status: fictional
sensors: sensor-ppg, sensor-accelerometer, sensor-camera-rgb
algorithms: algo-hr, algo-step-count, algo-sleep-staging
prior art notes: Discloses (a) continuously-worn wristbands with PPG and motion sensing that stream heart rate, activity, and sleep data to an employer, and (b) tiny body-wearable always-streaming cameras. Relevant to workplace-wellness wearable claims combining ‘a wrist-worn PPG/motion sensor’, ‘continuous physiological streaming to a remote/employer system’, and to body-worn-camera streaming claims. § 103 motivation that the employer-monitored wrist wearable and the always-streaming wearable camera were articulated objectives by 2013.

id: axon-body-2-police-bodycam-2016
corpus: private
form factor: body-camera
creator: Axon Enterprise, Inc. (formerly TASER International)
disclosure: Axon Enterprise, Inc. (formerly TASER International). ‘Axon Body 2’ body-worn camera, released 2016 — a chest-mounted body camera with HD video, infrared night vision, ambient audio, pre-event buffering (the prior 30-120 s of video kept and saved on trigger), wireless LTE upload, GPS, and integrated cloud chain-of-custody on the Evidence.com platform.
ip status: patented
sensors: sensor-camera-rgb, sensor-camera-ir, sensor-microphone-air
prior art notes: Discloses a chest-worn networked law-enforcement body camera with HD video, IR night vision, audio, a pre-event circular buffer (capturing seconds before activation), GPS, wireless upload, and integrated cloud chain-of-custody. Anticipates body-worn-camera claims combining ‘a chest-mounted camera’, ‘a continuous pre-event buffer with retrospective save on trigger’, ‘wireless upload to an evidence-management cloud service’, and ‘cryptographic chain of custody’ from 2016. Product-side anchor for the body-camera cross-cut on the real side; cf. [[aliens-marine-helmet-cam]] (the 1986 fictional networked-body-cam antecedent).