Intersection cross-cut: goggles ∩ sensor-microphone-air
Axes: form_factor × sensors
3 corpus entries disclose both tags.
Earliest disclosure: 1987-06-12
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.
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.
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.
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.