Intersection cross-cut: contact-lens ∩ sensor-camera-rgb
Axes: form_factor × sensors
3 corpus entries disclose both tags.
Earliest disclosure: 2006
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.
Rainbows End AR contact lenses and ‘wearing’ (2006)
- id:
rainbows-end-ar-contact-lens - corpus: fictional
- form factor: contact-lens
- creator: Vernor Vinge
- disclosure: Vinge, Vernor. Rainbows End. Tor Books, 2006 — augmented-reality contact lenses plus clothing-integrated compute (‘wearing’), with gaze and gesture control, persistent shared overlays, view-sharing, and a developer ecosystem of competing AR platforms.
- ip status: fictional
- sensors: sensor-camera-eye, sensor-camera-rgb
- algorithms: algo-eye-gaze-tracking
- prior art notes: Among the most specific fictional anticipations of modern AR eyewear: discloses (a) AR contact lenses rendering registered overlays, (b) clothing-integrated computing and sensing as the host platform, (c) gaze tracking and subtle gesture as the primary input modality, (d) multi-user shared/synchronized overlays and view-sharing, and (e) an open developer ecosystem with competing AR layers. Relevant to AR-contact-lens claims, gaze-controlled AR claims, and shared/collaborative-AR claims. § 103 motivation, circa 2006, toward essentially the entire modern AR-eyewear feature set. Non-enabling on optics and power; pair with enabling contact-lens-display and low-power-display art.
Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol — contact-lens camera and document scanner (2011-12-16)
- id:
mi-ghost-protocol-contact-lens-camera - corpus: fictional
- form factor: contact-lens
- creator: Brad Bird / Paramount Pictures
- disclosure: Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol (Paramount Pictures), released December 16, 2011; contact lenses that capture imagery on a deliberate double-blink, store and wirelessly transmit it, and scan documents for relay to a body-worn printer.
- ip status: fictional
- sensors: sensor-camera-rgb, sensor-camera-eye
- prior art notes: Discloses a corneal contact lens incorporating an image sensor, triggered by an intentional eyelid gesture (double-blink), with on-lens or near-body storage and wireless transmission of the captured imagery. Relevant to contact-lens claims combining ‘a contact lens’, ‘an image sensor’, ‘a blink-detection trigger’, and ‘wireless transmission of captured images’. § 103 motivation that the camera-bearing, blink-triggered contact lens was an articulated objective by 2011. Non-enabling on lens-scale optics/power; pair with enabling contact-lens-electronics art.
Black Mirror ‘Nosedive’ — AR social-rating overlay (2016-10-21)
- id:
black-mirror-nosedive-rating-overlay - corpus: fictional
- form factor: implantable
- creator: Charlie Brooker / Rashida Jones / Michael Schur / House of Tomorrow
- disclosure: Black Mirror, ‘Nosedive’ (Netflix, 21 October 2016); an ocular implant paired with a handset overlays every person in view with their live aggregate social rating, updated continuously from peer ratings of every interaction.
- ip status: fictional
- sensors: sensor-camera-rgb
- prior art notes: Discloses an ocular AR device that recognizes people in view and renders a live reputation/score badge beside each, with the score continuously updated from crowd ratings of interactions. Relevant to AR-eyewear claims combining ‘person recognition’, ‘retrieval of a per-person reputation metric’, and ‘real-time overlay of the metric on the recognized person’. § 103 motivation that the AR reputation overlay was an articulated objective by 2016. Cf. [[dragon-ball-z-scouter]] (an earlier scan-and-display-a-metric eyewear).