Intersection cross-cut: exoskeleton ∩ sensor-camera-ir
Axes: form_factor × sensors
3 corpus entries disclose both tags.
Earliest disclosure: 1959-10
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.
Starship Troopers — Mobile Infantry powered armor (powered exoskeleton with HUD, multi-sensor suite, comms, biomonitoring) (1959-10)
- id:
heinlein-starship-troopers-powered-armor - corpus: fictional
- form factor: exoskeleton
- creator: Robert A. Heinlein
- disclosure: Heinlein, Robert A. Starship Troopers, serialized as ‘Starship Soldier’ in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, October-November 1959 (book edition 1959); the Mobile Infantry powered armor — a fully enclosing powered exoskeleton augmenting strength and mobility, with a HUD/’snoopers’, integrated radar/IR/audio sensors, encrypted comms, climate control, medical/biometric monitoring, and assistive control (‘the suit does part of your thinking for you’).
- ip status: fictional
- sensors: sensor-camera-ir, sensor-microphone-air, sensor-accelerometer
- prior art notes: Discloses a fully enclosing powered exoskeleton integrating strength/mobility augmentation, a head-up display, a multi-modal sensor suite (radar, IR, audio), encrypted comms, environmental control, wearer biometric monitoring, and assistive autonomy. The foundational powered-armor-with-integrated-sensorium text. Relevant to powered-exoskeleton claims combining ‘a powered body-worn frame’, ‘a HUD’, ‘multiple environmental sensors’, ‘comms’, and ‘monitoring of the wearer’s vital signs’. § 103 motivation as of 1959. Cf. [[halo-mjolnir-armor]], [[crysis-nanosuit]], [[metroid-power-suit]], [[stark-iron-spider-suit]], [[darth-vader-life-support-suit]].
Metroid — Samus Aran’s Power Suit (powered armor with multi-mode scan visor and health/environment systems) (1986-08-06)
- id:
metroid-power-suit - corpus: fictional
- form factor: exoskeleton
- creator: Nintendo R&D1 / Retro Studios
- disclosure: Metroid (Nintendo, released 6 August 1986; multi-mode visor system in Metroid Prime, 2002); a fully enclosing powered armored suit with a head-up display, switchable visor modes (combat, scan/analysis, thermal, X-ray), an integrated arm-mounted tool, energy reserves indicating health, and environmental adaptation modules (heat resistance, pressure sealing).
- ip status: fictional
- sensors: sensor-camera-thermal, sensor-camera-ir
- prior art notes: Discloses a powered enclosing suit with a HUD, user-selectable visor modes (combat, scanning/analysis of objects in view, thermal, see-through), an integrated tool, an energy/health reserve indicator, and swappable environmental-protection modules. Relevant to powered-suit claims combining ‘a HUD with multiple selectable imaging/analysis modes’, ‘an integrated status reserve indicator’, and ‘environmental-adaptation modules’. § 103 motivation as of 1986 (multi-mode scan visor as of 2002). Cf. [[heinlein-starship-troopers-powered-armor]], [[halo-mjolnir-armor]], [[splinter-cell-trifocal-goggles]].
Blue Beetle ‘Scarab’ — spine-attached adaptive armor generator with HUD and AI (2006-05)
- id:
blue-beetle-scarab - corpus: fictional
- form factor: implantable
- creator: Keith Giffen / John Rogers / Cully Hamner / DC Comics
- disclosure: Blue Beetle (vol. 8) #1 (Marvel… DC Comics, May 2006), the Jaime Reyes incarnation; an alien biotechnological device that attaches to the host’s spine and on activation extrudes a full conformal armored exo-body with weapons, flight, sensors, a heads-up display, and a symbiotic on-board artificial intelligence.
- ip status: fictional
- sensors: sensor-camera-rgb, sensor-camera-ir
- prior art notes: Discloses a spine-attached device that, on command, generates a conformal powered exo-body with integrated sensors, a near-eye HUD, and an on-board AI in symbiotic dialogue with the host. Relevant to implant-plus-exoskeleton claims combining ‘a body-attached generator unit’, ‘a deployable conformal powered suit’, ‘integrated sensing and a HUD’, and ‘an onboard assistant’. § 103 motivation as of 2006. Cf. [[stark-iron-spider-suit]], [[venom-symbiote-suit]].