Intersection cross-cut: implantable ∩ sensor-camera-ir
Axes: form_factor × sensors
5 corpus entries disclose both tags.
Earliest disclosure: 1972
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.
Cyborg / The Six Million Dollar Man — bionic eye and limbs with sensing (1972)
- id:
caidin-cyborg-bionics - corpus: fictional
- form factor: implantable
- creator: Martin Caidin
- disclosure: Caidin, Martin. Cyborg. Arbor House, 1972 (television series The Six Million Dollar Man, ABC, 1973-1978) — a man fitted with a prosthetic eye providing zoom, telescopic, and infrared vision; prosthetic limbs with augmented force; and integrated sensing and telemetry of the prosthetics’ state.
- ip status: fictional
- sensors: sensor-camera-ir
- prior art notes: Discloses a prosthetic ocular implant offering switchable imaging modes (optical zoom, telescopic magnification, infrared) feeding the wearer’s visual perception, together with powered prosthetic limbs whose force output and internal state are sensed and reported. Relevant to ocular-sensor-implant claims combining ‘a prosthetic eye’, ‘multi-mode imaging’, and ‘coupling to the visual system’, and to powered-prosthesis claims combining ‘an actuator’, ‘force/state sensing’, and ‘telemetry’. § 103 motivation that the multi-mode ocular implant and the sensored powered prosthesis were articulated objectives by 1972. Non-enabling; pair with enabling retinal-prosthesis / powered-prosthesis art.
Cyberpunk 2020 — ‘cyberoptics’ and ‘Interface plugs’ (implanted sensor eyes + neural ports) (1988)
- id:
cyberpunk-2020-cyberoptics-and-interface-plugs - corpus: fictional
- form factor: implantable
- creator: Mike Pondsmith / R. Talsorian Games
- disclosure: Pondsmith, Mike. Cyberpunk (a.k.a. ‘Cyberpunk 2013’), R. Talsorian Games, 1988 (expanded as ‘Cyberpunk 2020’, 1990; video game ‘Cyberpunk 2077’, 2020); ‘cyberoptics’ — prosthetic eyes with selectable modes (low-light, infrared, telescopic, image enhancement), camera/recording options, and a HUD overlay — and ‘Interface plugs’ / neural processors for direct device control.
- ip status: fictional
- sensors: sensor-camera-ir, sensor-camera-rgb
- prior art notes: Discloses prosthetic ocular implants with user-selectable imaging modes (low-light, IR, telescopic, enhancement), optional integrated camera and recording, and a HUD overlay, plus implanted neural ports for direct machine control. Relevant to implantable-vision-system and implanted-neural-interface claims; part of the chronological chain through [[caidin-cyborg-bionics]] (1972), [[neuromancer-mirrorshade-implants]] (1984), [[shadowrun-cyberware]] (1989), [[ghost-in-the-shell-cyberbrain]] (1989). § 103 motivation as of 1988.
Shadowrun — ‘cyberware’ (cybereyes, cyberears, datajack, smartlink) (1989)
- id:
shadowrun-cyberware - corpus: fictional
- form factor: implantable
- creator: Bob Charrette / Paul Hume / Tom Dowd / FASA
- disclosure: Shadowrun, 1st edition, FASA Corporation, 1989; implanted ‘cybereyes’ (low-light/thermal/magnification/recording, HUD overlay), ‘cyberears’ (amplification, spatial recognition, recording), a head-mounted ‘datajack’ (neural data port), and a ‘smartlink’ wiring a weapon’s targeting reticle into the eye.
- ip status: fictional
- sensors: sensor-camera-ir, sensor-camera-thermal, sensor-microphone-air
- prior art notes: Discloses implanted vision and hearing prostheses with selectable enhancement modes and recording, a cranial neural data port, and a HUD targeting overlay wired to the eye. Relevant to implantable-sensory-prosthesis and implanted-data-port claims; an independent 1989 disclosure parallel to [[cyberpunk-2020-cyberoptics-and-interface-plugs]] and [[ghost-in-the-shell-cyberbrain]]. § 103 motivation as of 1989.
Star Trek Borg cybernetic implant suite (1989-05-08)
- id:
star-trek-borg-implants - corpus: fictional
- form factor: implantable
- creator: Maurice Hurley / Paramount Television
- disclosure: Star Trek: The Next Generation, ‘Q Who’ (first aired May 8, 1989); the Borg — humanoids fitted with an integrated suite of cybernetic implants: an ocular sensor implant, a cortical processing node, continuous physiological regulation, and a permanent network link to a collective.
- ip status: fictional
- sensors: sensor-camera-ir
- prior art notes: Discloses a coordinated suite of implanted devices: a vision-replacement ocular sensor implant; an implanted processing/computation node interfaced to the nervous system; implanted systems that continuously monitor and regulate the host’s physiology; and a persistent wireless link joining the implants to an external network. Relevant to implantable-sensor-network and implantable-physiological-regulation claims combining ‘a plurality of implanted sensors/effectors’, ‘an implanted processor’, ‘closed-loop physiological control’, and ‘a wireless link to an external system’. § 103 motivation that the networked implantable sensor/regulator suite was an articulated objective by 1989.
Blue Beetle ‘Scarab’ — spine-attached adaptive armor generator with HUD and AI (2006-05)
- id:
blue-beetle-scarab - corpus: fictional
- form factor: implantable
- creator: Keith Giffen / John Rogers / Cully Hamner / DC Comics
- disclosure: Blue Beetle (vol. 8) #1 (Marvel… DC Comics, May 2006), the Jaime Reyes incarnation; an alien biotechnological device that attaches to the host’s spine and on activation extrudes a full conformal armored exo-body with weapons, flight, sensors, a heads-up display, and a symbiotic on-board artificial intelligence.
- ip status: fictional
- sensors: sensor-camera-rgb, sensor-camera-ir
- prior art notes: Discloses a spine-attached device that, on command, generates a conformal powered exo-body with integrated sensors, a near-eye HUD, and an on-board AI in symbiotic dialogue with the host. Relevant to implant-plus-exoskeleton claims combining ‘a body-attached generator unit’, ‘a deployable conformal powered suit’, ‘integrated sensing and a HUD’, and ‘an onboard assistant’. § 103 motivation as of 2006. Cf. [[stark-iron-spider-suit]], [[venom-symbiote-suit]].