Intersection cross-cut: garment ∩ sensor-camera-rgb
Axes: form_factor × sensors
4 corpus entries disclose both tags.
Earliest disclosure: 1992
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.
Snow Crash ‘Gargoyle’ wearable computer rig (1992)
- 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.
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.
Axon Body 2 (2016) — networked law-enforcement body-worn camera with cloud digital-evidence chain of custody (2016-06)
- 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).
Stark ‘Iron Spider’ suit with mask HUD and AI (‘Karen’) (2017-07-07)
- 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.