Intersection cross-cut: implantable ∩ sensor-camera-rgb
Axes: form_factor × sensors
5 corpus entries disclose both tags.
Earliest disclosure: 1988
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.
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.
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]].
Black Mirror ‘grain’ implant (‘The Entire History of You’) (2011-12-18)
- id:
black-mirror-grain-implant - corpus: fictional
- form factor: implantable
- creator: Charlie Brooker / Jesse Armstrong / Zeppotron
- disclosure: Black Mirror, ‘The Entire History of You’ (Channel 4, 18 December 2011); a ‘grain’ implanted behind the ear continuously records the wearer’s audiovisual experience, replayable on the retina or cast to an external screen (‘re-do’).
- ip status: fictional
- sensors: sensor-camera-rgb, sensor-microphone-air
- prior art notes: Discloses a behind-the-ear implanted lifelogging device that continuously captures the wearer’s first-person audiovisual stream and replays it onto the wearer’s retina or to an external display with seek/scrub controls. Relevant to implantable lifelogging claims combining ‘a sub-dermal recorder’, ‘continuous capture of first-person audio/video’, ‘retinal or external playback’, and ‘random-access review’. § 103 motivation that the implanted always-on experience recorder was an articulated objective by 2011. Non-enabling on the implant electronics.
Black Mirror ‘Nosedive’ — AR social-rating overlay (2016-10-21)
- id:
black-mirror-nosedive-rating-overlay - corpus: fictional
- form factor: implantable
- creator: Charlie Brooker / Rashida Jones / Michael Schur / House of Tomorrow
- disclosure: Black Mirror, ‘Nosedive’ (Netflix, 21 October 2016); an ocular implant paired with a handset overlays every person in view with their live aggregate social rating, updated continuously from peer ratings of every interaction.
- ip status: fictional
- sensors: sensor-camera-rgb
- prior art notes: Discloses an ocular AR device that recognizes people in view and renders a live reputation/score badge beside each, with the score continuously updated from crowd ratings of interactions. Relevant to AR-eyewear claims combining ‘person recognition’, ‘retrieval of a per-person reputation metric’, and ‘real-time overlay of the metric on the recognized person’. § 103 motivation that the AR reputation overlay was an articulated objective by 2016. Cf. [[dragon-ball-z-scouter]] (an earlier scan-and-display-a-metric eyewear).
Black Mirror ‘Arkangel’ parental-monitoring neural implant (2017-12-29)
- id:
black-mirror-arkangel-implant - corpus: fictional
- form factor: implantable
- creator: Charlie Brooker / House of Tomorrow
- disclosure: Black Mirror, ‘Arkangel’ (Netflix, 29 December 2017); a neural implant given to a child providing the parent with GPS location, vital-sign monitoring, a live first-person video feed, and real-time visual censoring (pixelating distressing sights and muting sounds in the child’s perception).
- ip status: fictional
- sensors: sensor-camera-rgb
- prior art notes: Discloses an implanted device that (a) reports the wearer’s location and vitals to a remote guardian, (b) streams the wearer’s first-person view, and (c) modifies the wearer’s own perception in real time (visual redaction, audio attenuation). Relevant to implantable-monitoring claims combining ‘location + physiological telemetry to a remote party’, ‘first-person video streaming’, and ‘perceptual filtering of the wearer’s sensory input’. § 103 motivation that the perception-modifying monitoring implant was an articulated objective by 2017. Cf. [[black-mirror-grain-implant]], [[black-mirror-z-eye-redaction]].