Intersection cross-cut: glasses ∩ sensor-camera-rgb

Axes: form_factor × sensors

6 corpus entries disclose both tags.

Earliest disclosure: 1989-04

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.

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Dragon Ball ‘Scouter’ (monocular scanning eyewear) (1989-04)

• id: dragon-ball-z-scouter
• corpus: fictional
• form factor: glasses
• creator: Akira Toriyama
• disclosure: Toriyama, Akira. Dragon Ball (manga), the Saiyan arc introducing the ‘Scouter’ c. April 1989, Shueisha (Dragon Ball Z anime, 1989); a monocular eyewear device that scans a target and displays a quantified strength metric (‘power level’), with two-way voice communication and a head-up readout.
• ip status: fictional
• sensors: sensor-camera-rgb
• prior art notes: Discloses monocular head-worn eyewear that scans a person/object in view, computes and displays a quantified metric about the target, and provides two-way voice comms — all in a single ear-hooked unit with a flip-down display. Relevant to AR-eyewear claims combining ‘a monocular near-eye display’, ‘an outward sensor’, ‘on-view target measurement/identification’, and ‘integrated voice comms’. § 103 motivation that the scan-and-display-a-metric monocular headset was an articulated objective by 1989. Cf. [[black-mirror-nosedive-rating-overlay]].

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.

Halting State AR glasses (‘CopSpace’ and ARG overlays) (2007)

• id: halting-state-ar-glasses
• corpus: fictional
• form factor: glasses
• creator: Charles Stross
• disclosure: Stross, Charles. Halting State. Ace Books, 2007 — networked AR glasses with role-specific overlay layers (police ‘CopSpace’), shared annotations, gaze interaction, and alternate-reality-game overlays as a plot mechanism.
• ip status: fictional
• sensors: sensor-camera-rgb, sensor-camera-eye
• algorithms: algo-eye-gaze-tracking
• prior art notes: Discloses AR glasses with switchable, permission-scoped overlay layers (an enterprise/role ‘channel’ model), networked shared annotations registered to physical locations, gaze-driven UI, and overlapping game/social overlay layers. Relevant to AR-eyewear claims about layer/channel management, location-anchored shared annotations, and access-controlled AR content. § 103 motivation, circa 2007, that multi-layer permissioned networked AR eyewear was a concrete objective.

Kingsman AR glasses (HUD, recording, X-ray, scanning, holographic conferencing) (2014-12-13)

• id: kingsman-ar-glasses
• corpus: fictional
• form factor: glasses
• creator: Matthew Vaughn / Marv Films
• disclosure: Kingsman: The Secret Service (20th Century Fox / Marv Films), 2014; agency eyeglasses providing a heads-up information overlay, point-of-view video recording, see-through (X-ray-style) imaging, object/person scanning, and rendering of remote participants as holographic avatars seated around a table.
• ip status: fictional
• sensors: sensor-camera-rgb, sensor-camera-ir
• prior art notes: Discloses eyeglasses integrating: a near-eye information HUD; an outward camera with POV recording; a see-through imaging mode; an object/person scanning-and-identification function; and shared telepresence rendering remote participants as registered holographic avatars in the wearer’s view. Relevant to AR-glasses claims combining ‘an eyewear frame’, ‘a near-eye display’, ‘an outward camera’, ‘recording’, ‘on-view object/person identification’, and ‘shared/telepresence AR’. § 103 motivation that the fully-featured AR information eyewear was an articulated objective by 2014.

Horizon Zero Dawn — the ‘Focus’ (compact ear/temple-worn AR scanner with object analysis and log playback) (2017-02-28)

• id: horizon-zero-dawn-focus
• corpus: fictional
• form factor: earbud
• creator: Guerrilla Games / Sony Interactive Entertainment
• disclosure: Horizon Zero Dawn (Guerrilla Games / Sony, released 28 February 2017); the ‘Focus’ — a small triangular device worn at the temple/ear that provides AR overlays, scans and analyses machines and people in view (highlighting structure, components, and weak points), records and replays holographic/audio ‘datapoint’ logs, and networks with infrastructure.
• ip status: fictional
• sensors: sensor-camera-rgb
• prior art notes: Discloses a compact ear/temple-worn device providing AR overlays, real-time scanning and structural analysis of objects/persons in view, recording and playback of geolocated holographic/audio logs, and networked operation — all in a minimal form factor. Relevant to compact-AR-wearable claims combining ‘an ear- or temple-worn device’, ‘an outward sensor’, ‘on-view object/person analysis with overlay’, and ‘recorded-log capture and playback’. § 103 motivation as of 2017. Cf. [[dragon-ball-z-scouter]], [[metal-gear-solid-sneaking-suit-and-solid-eye]], [[her-samantha-earpiece]].