Intersection cross-cut: cap ∩ sensor-eeg
Axes: form_factor × sensors
3 corpus entries disclose both tags.
Earliest disclosure: 1995-10-13
These entries are the direct inputs to OBVIOUSNESS_TEMPLATE.md. Any patent claim combining these two elements is anticipated or rendered obvious by the chain below.
Strange Days — SQUID head-worn neural experience recorder (1995-10-13)
- id:
strange-days-squid-recorder - corpus: fictional
- form factor: cap
- creator: Kathryn Bigelow / James Cameron (writer) / Lightstorm
- disclosure: Strange Days (Lightstorm Entertainment / 20th Century Fox), released October 13, 1995; the ‘SQUID’ — a fine wire-mesh cap worn under a hat that records the wearer’s full multisensory and emotional experience directly from the cerebral cortex for later playback into another person’s cortex.
- ip status: fictional
- sensors: sensor-dry-eeg-electrode, sensor-eeg
- prior art notes: Discloses a head-worn mesh of scalp electrodes that records a rich, multi-channel signal of the wearer’s perceptual and affective experience for storage and later replay. Relevant to wearable neural-recording claims combining ‘a head-worn array of scalp electrodes’, ‘acquisition of a multi-channel cortical signal’, ‘encoding of perceptual/affective content’, and ‘storage for later playback’. § 103 motivation that the wearable experience-recording headset was an articulated objective by 1995. Non-enabling on the encoding/playback; pair with enabling EEG/BCI art.
Surrogates — head-worn neural interface rig for robot-body telepresence (2005-08-17)
- id:
surrogates-neural-teleoperation-rig - corpus: fictional
- form factor: headband
- creator: Robert Venditti and Brett Weldele
- disclosure: Venditti, Robert; Weldele, Brett. The Surrogates #1. Top Shelf Productions, 2005 (film adaptation: Touchstone Pictures, 2009); operators recline in a chair wearing a head-mounted neural interface that captures their volition and sensory channels to remotely embody and control a humanoid robot ‘surrogate’, receiving its sensory feedback in return.
- ip status: fictional
- sensors: sensor-dry-eeg-electrode, sensor-eeg
- prior art notes: Discloses a head-worn neural-interface rig that reads the wearer’s motor intent and routes sensory feedback, used to teleoperate a humanoid robot with the operator perceiving through the robot’s sensors. Relevant to wearable-BCI teleoperation claims combining ‘a head-worn neural sensor array’, ‘decoding of motor intent’, ‘transmission of commands to a remote robot’, and ‘return of the robot’s sensory data to the wearer’. § 103 motivation that the wearable neural-interface telepresence rig was an articulated objective by 2005. Non-enabling; pair with enabling BCI/teleop art.
Emotiv EPOC (2009) — 14-channel wireless saline-electrode consumer EEG headset (2009-12)
- 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.