Cross-cut: `legband`

Axis: form_factor

2 corpus entries disclose this tag.

Earliest disclosure: 1993-12-17

Listed in chronological order. Each entry’s prior_art_notes and disclosure_citation constitute the citeable prior art material.

Wallace & Gromit ‘Techno Trousers’ (powered automated legwear) (1993-12-17)

id: wallace-gromit-techno-trousers
corpus: fictional
form factor: garment
creator: Nick Park / Aardman Animations
disclosure: The Wrong Trousers (Aardman Animations / BBC), broadcast December 17, 1993 — robotic trousers worn around the legs that walk under their own power, can be programmed to follow a route, and can be remotely commandeered, with the wearer carried along inside.
ip status: fictional
prior art notes: Discloses a powered lower-body garment (trousers) that actuates the wearer’s legs to produce locomotion, executes a pre-programmed route autonomously, and accepts override commands over a remote link. Relevant to powered-legwear / lower-body-exoskeleton claims combining ‘a garment worn about the legs’, ‘actuators driving leg motion’, ‘an autonomous gait controller’, and ‘a remote command interface’. § 103 motivation that the powered, autonomously-walking lower-body garment was an articulated objective by 1993.

id: sensoria-smart-socks-2014
corpus: private
form factor: sock
creator: Sensoria Inc. (formerly Heapsylon)
disclosure: Sensoria Inc. ‘Sensoria Fitness Smart Socks’, announced January 2014 — running socks with three pressure-sensitive textile sensors woven into the sole (under the heel, ball of foot, and toes) and a magnetically-attached ‘Sensoria Core’ anklet (accelerometer + Bluetooth) that derives cadence, foot strike pattern (heel/mid/forefoot), foot landing zone, pace, distance, and provides real-time audio coaching.
ip status: patented
sensors: sensor-pressure-skin, sensor-piezoelectric, sensor-accelerometer
algorithms: algo-step-count, algo-gait-analysis, algo-activity-classification
prior art notes: Discloses a sock with multiple pressure-sensitive textile sensors woven into the sole, paired with a removable ankle-worn electronics module that derives cadence, foot-strike pattern, pressure distribution, and pace. Anticipates smart-sock/sole-pressure-sensing claims combining ‘a sock with one or more textile pressure sensors at multiple positions of the foot sole’ and ‘a paired electronics module deriving gait metrics’ from 2014. Product-side anchor for the sock form-factor cross-cut (the only sock entry); cf. [[nike-plus-ipod-sport-kit-2006]] (the earlier shoe/insole route).