Intersection cross-cut: helmet ∩ sensor-dry-eeg-electrode

Axes: form_factor × sensors

3 corpus entries disclose both tags.

Earliest disclosure: 1964-09

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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Cerebro (X-Men) — brain-amplifying head device for remote detection (1964-09)

• id: professor-x-cerebro
• corpus: fictional
• form factor: helmet
• creator: Stan Lee / Jack Kirby / Marvel Comics
• disclosure: The X-Men #7 (cover date September 1964), Marvel Comics; ‘Cerebro’ — a head-worn helmet/headset that amplifies the wearer’s neural signals to detect and geolocate other minds at a distance, with a display readout of the detections.
• ip status: fictional
• sensors: sensor-dry-eeg-electrode
• prior art notes: Discloses a head-worn device that couples to the wearer’s brain, amplifies the neural signal, uses it for a sensing task (detecting/locating other minds), and presents the results on a display. Relevant to neural-amplifier / brain-coupled-sensing claims combining ‘a head-worn neural pickup’, ‘signal amplification’, and ‘a derived detection output’. § 103 motivation as of 1964. Cf. [[strange-days-squid-recorder]], [[ghost-in-the-shell-cyberbrain]].

Mobile Suit Gundam — ‘psycommu’ head-worn neural interface for remote weapon control (1979-04-07)

• id: gundam-psycommu-interface
• corpus: fictional
• form factor: helmet
• creator: Yoshiyuki Tomino / Nippon Sunrise
• disclosure: Mobile Suit Gundam (Nippon Sunrise television series, premiered 7 April 1979); the ‘psycommu’ system — a head-worn interface that reads the pilot’s brainwaves to direct remote weapon units (‘funnels’/’bits’) and control the mobile suit without manual input.
• ip status: fictional
• sensors: sensor-dry-eeg-electrode
• prior art notes: Discloses a head-worn neural sensor that decodes the wearer’s intent from brain activity and uses it to command remote machines/weapons and a piloted vehicle hands-free. Relevant to wearable-BCI claims combining ‘a head-worn neural sensor array’, ‘decoding of operator intent’, and ‘transmission of commands to remote devices’. § 103 motivation that the wearable neural-control interface for remote devices was an articulated objective by 1979 — predating [[surrogates-neural-teleoperation-rig]].

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]].