Intersection cross-cut: implantable ∩ sensor-microphone-air
Axes: form_factor × sensors
4 corpus entries disclose both tags.
Earliest disclosure: 1976-01-14
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.
The Bionic Woman — bionic ear (augmented, frequency-selective hearing) (1976-01-14)
- id:
bionic-woman-bionic-ear - corpus: fictional
- form factor: hearing-aid
- creator: Kenneth Johnson / Universal Television
- disclosure: The Bionic Woman (ABC, premiered January 14, 1976) — a prosthetic ear giving the wearer greatly amplified hearing with the ability to tune to and isolate specific sound sources and frequencies at a distance.
- ip status: fictional
- sensors: sensor-microphone-air
- prior art notes: Discloses a prosthetic hearing device providing amplified hearing plus directional/frequency-selective listening — the wearer can steer toward and isolate a chosen sound source or band. Relevant to hearing-device claims combining ‘a worn or implanted hearing prosthesis’, ‘amplification’, and ‘beamforming / frequency-selective source isolation’ (modern hearable and hearing-aid ‘focus’ / ‘conversation isolation’ features). § 103 motivation that the steerable, frequency-selective augmented-hearing device was an articulated objective by 1976. Non-enabling; pair with enabling beamforming-hearing-aid art.
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.
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.
Total Recall (2012) — subdermal palm phone with through-skin display (2012-08-03)
- id:
total-recall-2012-palm-phone - corpus: fictional
- form factor: implantable
- creator: Len Wiseman / Columbia Pictures
- disclosure: Total Recall (Columbia Pictures), released August 3, 2012; a telephone implanted in the wearer’s hand — dial pad and display visible through the skin of the palm, speaker/microphone in the hand, glass surfaces used as touch interfaces.
- ip status: fictional
- sensors: sensor-microphone-air
- prior art notes: Discloses a subdermally-implanted electronic device with a display rendered so as to be visible through the overlying skin, touch input on the skin surface, and audio I/O — i.e. an epidermal/sub-dermal communicator in the hand. Relevant to implantable / electronic-skin claims combining ‘a sub-dermal electronic device’, ‘a display perceptible through the skin’, and ‘touch input at the skin surface’. § 103 motivation that the through-skin sub-dermal display device was an articulated objective by 2012. Non-enabling on the display/skin optics; pair with enabling flexible-display and biocompatible-electronics art.