Intersection cross-cut: goggles ∩ sensor-camera-ir
Axes: form_factor × sensors
4 corpus entries disclose both tags.
Earliest disclosure: 1984-10-26
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.
Terminator T-800 vision HUD (1984-10-26)
- id:
terminator-t800-hud - corpus: fictional
- form factor: fictional-other
- creator: James Cameron / Hemdale Film / Orion Pictures
- disclosure: The Terminator (Orion Pictures), released October 26, 1984; the T-800’s first-person heads-up display overlaying target identification, status readouts, and option menus on a machine-vision feed.
- ip status: fictional
- sensors: sensor-camera-rgb, sensor-camera-ir
- prior art notes: Discloses a head-/eye-locked augmented-reality overlay: a live camera feed annotated in real time with object/threat identification, persistent status indicators, and selectable text menus. Relevant to AR-HUD eyewear and helmet claims combining ‘an image sensor’, ‘a near-eye display’, and ‘a processor configured to overlay object-recognition results’. § 103 motivation that the annotated-live-feed near-eye HUD was a concrete design objective by 1984. Non-enabling on the recognition pipeline; pair with enabling computer-vision art.
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]].
Predator bio-mask (multi-spectral helmet HUD) (1987-06-12)
- id:
predator-bio-mask - corpus: fictional
- form factor: helmet
- creator: John McTiernan / 20th Century Fox
- disclosure: Predator (20th Century Fox), released June 12, 1987; the creature’s helmet/mask providing thermal vision, spectral mode-switching, optical zoom, recording/playback, and audio language capture/synthesis.
- ip status: fictional
- sensors: sensor-camera-thermal, sensor-camera-ir, sensor-microphone-air
- prior art notes: Discloses a head-worn enclosure integrating switchable multi-spectral imaging (thermal/IR/visible), digital zoom, on-board recording and playback, and captured-audio processing/synthesis, with a HUD presenting mode and status. Relevant to helmet/eyewear claims combining ‘a thermal imager’, ‘a mode selector among imaging spectra’, ‘a near-eye display’, and ‘audio capture and synthesis’. § 103 motivation that the multi-spectral recording head-display was an articulated objective by 1987.
Splinter Cell — trifocal goggles (multi-spectral vision goggles with selectable modes) (2002-11-17)
- id:
splinter-cell-trifocal-goggles - corpus: fictional
- form factor: goggles
- creator: Ubisoft Montreal
- disclosure: Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell (Ubisoft, released 17 November 2002); head-worn ‘trifocal’ goggles with three selectable vision modes — image-intensified night vision, thermal imaging, and an electromagnetic/EMF-sensing mode.
- ip status: fictional
- sensors: sensor-camera-ir, sensor-camera-thermal
- prior art notes: Discloses head-worn goggles with a user-selectable choice among multiple imaging spectra (intensified visible/NIR, thermal IR, EMF), all in a single device. Relevant to multi-spectral-eyewear claims combining ‘a head-worn display’ and ‘a selector among two or more imaging modalities/spectra’. § 103 motivation as of 2002. Cf. [[predator-bio-mask]], [[metroid-power-suit]], [[shadowrun-cyberware]].