Intersection cross-cut: helmet ∩ sensor-camera-rgb
Axes: form_factor × sensors
3 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.
Aliens — Colonial Marine helmet camera with live command feed (1986-07-18)
- id:
aliens-marine-helmet-cam - corpus: fictional
- form factor: helmet
- creator: James Cameron / 20th Century Fox
- disclosure: Aliens (20th Century Fox), released July 18, 1986; each Colonial Marine’s helmet carries a camera and light that streams live video to a remote tactical console where a commander monitors all squad feeds simultaneously and issues instructions.
- ip status: fictional
- sensors: sensor-camera-rgb
- prior art notes: Discloses head-worn cameras on multiple wearers each streaming live first-person video over a wireless link to a single remote monitoring station that displays all feeds and supports two-way command communication — i.e. the body-worn-camera-to-remote-command-center system. Relevant to claims combining ‘a head- or body-worn camera’, ‘wireless transmission of the video to a remote device’, and ‘a console displaying multiple wearers’ feeds for supervision’. § 103 motivation that networked body-worn camera supervision was an articulated objective by 1986, prior to the modern body-camera and tele-supervision patent space.
RoboCop helmet HUD with recording and database lookup (1987-07-17)
- id:
robocop-targeting-hud - corpus: fictional
- form factor: helmet
- creator: Paul Verhoeven / Orion Pictures
- disclosure: RoboCop (Orion Pictures), released July 17, 1987; the cyborg officer’s helmet-integrated heads-up display providing targeting reticles, continuous video recording of the wearer’s view, and real-time identification of persons against a records database.
- ip status: fictional
- sensors: sensor-camera-rgb
- prior art notes: Discloses a helmet-integrated near-eye HUD that (a) overlays targeting/aiming graphics on the wearer’s view, (b) continuously records that view, and (c) performs real-time identification of people in view by querying a records database and displaying the match. Relevant to helmet/eyewear claims combining ‘a head-mounted display’, ‘an outward camera’, ‘video recording’, and ‘on-view person identification against a database’. § 103 motivation that the recording, identifying helmet HUD was an articulated objective by 1987.