Intersection cross-cut: helmet ∩ sensor-accelerometer
Axes: form_factor × sensors
3 corpus entries disclose both tags.
Earliest disclosure: 2001-11-15
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.
Halo — MJOLNIR powered armor (powered exoskeleton with energy shield, HUD, integrated AI, and biofoam medical system) (2001-11-15)
- id:
halo-mjolnir-armor - corpus: fictional
- form factor: exoskeleton
- creator: Bungie Studios / Microsoft
- disclosure: Halo: Combat Evolved (Bungie / Microsoft, released 15 November 2001); the MJOLNIR powered armor — strength/speed augmentation, a regenerating energy shield with a status meter, a HUD (motion tracker, ammunition, shield/health status, waypoints), an integrated companion AI (‘Cortana’) resident in the suit, automatic ‘biofoam’ wound sealing, vacuum/environmental sealing, and a neural interface to the wearer.
- ip status: fictional
- sensors: sensor-accelerometer
- prior art notes: Discloses a powered enclosing suit integrating strength augmentation, a regenerating defensive field with a status indicator, a HUD (motion tracker, resource counters, health/shield meters, navigation waypoints), an on-board companion AI, automatic medical wound-sealing, environmental sealing, and a neural interface. Relevant to powered-armor claims combining ‘a HUD with health/resource/navigation overlays’, ‘an onboard AI assistant’, and ‘an integrated automatic medical-treatment system’. § 103 motivation as of 2001. Cf. [[heinlein-starship-troopers-powered-armor]], [[crysis-nanosuit]], [[stark-iron-spider-suit]].
Iron Man helmet HUD with biometric monitoring (2008-05-02)
- id:
iron-man-helmet-hud - corpus: fictional
- form factor: helmet
- creator: Marvel Studios
- disclosure: Iron Man (Marvel Studios / Paramount), released May 2, 2008; the suit helmet’s interior HUD presenting wearer vitals, environmental/tactical data, and a conversational voice AI (JARVIS). (Armor concept originates Tales of Suspense #39, Marvel Comics, March 1963.)
- ip status: fictional
- sensors: sensor-accelerometer
- algorithms: algo-hr, algo-respiratory-rate
- prior art notes: Discloses a helmet whose interior near-eye display continuously presents the wearer’s physiological state (HR, respiration, O2, fatigue) alongside environmental/tactical overlays, mediated by a hands-free conversational voice assistant. Relevant to helmet- and headgear-integrated biometric-monitoring claims combining ‘sensors disposed to contact the wearer’, ‘a head-mounted display presenting physiological metrics’, and ‘a voice interface’. § 103 motivation that the vitals-in-the-helmet-HUD concept was an articulated objective by 2008 (and the broader powered-helmet-display lineage by 1963).
Pacific Rim — Jaeger ‘Drivesuit’ and ‘Conn-Pod’ dual-pilot neural bridge (2013-07-12)
- id:
pacific-rim-drivesuit-and-conn-pod - corpus: fictional
- form factor: garment
- creator: Guillermo del Toro / Legendary Pictures
- disclosure: Pacific Rim (Warner Bros. / Legendary), released 12 July 2013; pilots wear a ‘Drivesuit’ (a body suit capturing motion and monitoring vitals) and a ‘relay-gel’/spinal-clamp helmet that creates a shared neural bridge (‘the Drift’) between two co-pilots and the mecha.
- ip status: fictional
- sensors: sensor-ecg, sensor-dry-eeg-electrode, sensor-accelerometer
- algorithms: algo-hr
- prior art notes: Discloses an instrumented pilot suit (motion capture + vital-sign monitoring) combined with head/spine-worn relays that establish a shared neural bridge between two operators and a controlled machine. Relevant to multi-operator neural-interface claims and to instrumented-bodysuit claims combining ‘a motion-capturing garment’, ‘vital-sign monitoring’, and ‘a head/spine neural relay linking multiple operators’. § 103 motivation as of 2013. Cf. [[nge-plug-suit-and-a10-clips]] (single-pilot), [[surrogates-neural-teleoperation-rig]].