Intersection cross-cut: othersensor-camera-eye

Axes: form_factor × sensors

3 corpus entries disclose both tags.

Earliest disclosure: 1968

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.


Blade Runner — the Voight-Kampff machine (contactless multi-physiological liveness/identity test) (1968)

  • id: blade-runner-voight-kampff
  • corpus: fictional
  • form factor: other
  • creator: Philip K. Dick
  • disclosure: Dick, Philip K. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? Doubleday, 1968 (film: Blade Runner, Warner Bros., 1982); a portable instrument that measures involuntary physiological responses — pupil dilation, ‘capillary dilation of the so-called blush response’, heart rate, micro-expression — under questioning, to classify a subject as human or replicant.
  • ip status: fictional
  • sensors: sensor-camera-ir, sensor-camera-eye
  • algorithms: algo-pupillometry, algo-hr, algo-emotion-recognition
  • prior art notes: Discloses a device that contactlessly measures multiple involuntary physiological signals from a person’s face (pupil dilation, blush/capillary response, heart rate, micro-expression) and fuses them into a binary classification of the subject. Relevant to remote-photoplethysmography / pupillometry / ‘deception or liveness detection’ claims combining ‘contactless facial imaging’, ‘extraction of two or more involuntary physiological signals’, and ‘a classification of the subject’. § 103 motivation as of 1968. Cf. [[psycho-pass-cymatic-scan]], [[gattaca-biometric-checkpoints]].

Minority Report ambient retinal identification and personalization (2002-06-21)

  • id: minority-report-retinal-id-ads
  • corpus: fictional
  • form factor: other
  • creator: Steven Spielberg / DreamWorks / 20th Century Fox
  • disclosure: Minority Report (20th Century Fox / DreamWorks), released June 21, 2002; environmental cameras performing continuous retinal/iris identification of passers-by to deliver individually personalized advertising and access control. (Based on Philip K. Dick, ‘The Minority Report’, Fantastic Universe, 1956.)
  • ip status: fictional
  • sensors: sensor-camera-ir, sensor-camera-eye
  • prior art notes: Discloses continuous, contactless retinal/iris biometric identification of individuals in a public space, with the identity used to trigger personalized content and access decisions in real time. Relevant to (a) contactless ocular-biometric identification claims and (b) identity-triggered personalization claims. § 103 motivation that always-on ambient retinal ID with downstream personalization was an articulated objective by 2002. Non-enabling on the optical pipeline; pair with enabling iris-recognition art.

  • Black Mirror ‘Fifteen Million Merits’ — gaze-enforced compulsory viewing (2011-12-11) — black-mirror-fifteen-million-merits-gaze-enforcement [fictional] — Black Mirror, ‘Fifteen Million Merits’ (Channel 4, 11 December 2011); ubiquitous screens show advertising the viewer is required to watch — closing or averting the eyes triggers an alarm and a penalty…

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