Cross-cut: pendant
Axis: form_factor
7 corpus entries disclose this tag.
Earliest disclosure: 1982-05
Listed in chronological order. Each entry’s prior_art_notes and
disclosure_citation constitute the citeable prior art material.
- The Running Man — worn tracking/enforcement collar (1982-05) —
the-running-man-tracking-collar[fictional] — Bachman, Richard (Stephen King). The Running Man. Signet, 1982 (film: TriStar Pictures, 1987); a neck-worn collar that continuously transmits the wearer’s location and status to a control center and c… - Tron — the ‘identity disc’ (back-worn data store and tool) (1982-07-09) —
tron-identity-disc[fictional] — Tron (Walt Disney Productions), released 9 July 1982 (and Tron: Legacy, 2010); a disc worn on the back that stores the bearer’s data, memories, and functions, removable for use as a tool or weapon and…Star Trek combadge (Starfleet communicator badge) (1987-09-28)
- id:
star-trek-tng-combadge - corpus: fictional
- form factor: pendant
- creator: Gene Roddenberry / Paramount Television
- disclosure: Star Trek: The Next Generation, ‘Encounter at Farpoint’ (premiered September 28, 1987); chest-worn combadge providing voice-activated communications and (in later depictions) crew biometric/location lock.
- ip status: fictional
- prior art notes: Discloses a chest-worn, garment-attached badge that is (a) a hands-free, voice-activated communicator, (b) a continuous wearer-identification token, and (c) a real-time location beacon usable to resolve who-is-where. Relevant to wearable-badge claims combining voice UI + identity + indoor positioning (hospital/enterprise comm-badge patents, e.g. the Vocera lineage). § 103 motivation that the voice-badge + identity + location triad was a stated objective by 1987.
Williams et al. (1998) — accelerometer-based automatic fall and activity monitor for telecare (1998-10)
- id:
williams-1998-automatic-fall-detector - corpus: academic
- form factor: belt
- creator: G. Williams / K. Doughty / K. Cameron / D.A. Bradley
- disclosure: Williams G, Doughty K, Cameron K, Bradley DA. ‘A smart fall and activity monitor for telecare applications.’ Proceedings of the 20th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBS), Hong Kong, 1998, pp. 1151-1154.
- ip status: unknown
- sensors: sensor-accelerometer, sensor-piezoelectric
- algorithms: algo-fall-detection, algo-activity-classification
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prior art notes: Discloses a body-worn (waist/trunk) device that automatically detects a fall from accelerometer/impact signals — distinguishing falls from normal activity — and raises a telecare alarm, without requiring the wearer to press a button. Anticipates automatic-fall-detection wearable claims combining ‘a body-worn inertial sensor’, ‘a classifier distinguishing a fall from activities of daily living’, and ‘an automatic alert on detection’. Anchor for the fall-detection cross-cut; combined with watch/pendant form-factor disclosures, makes wristworn/pendant automatic fall detection obvious under [[obviousness-template]].
- Digimon — ‘Digivice’ (worn companion-monitoring device) (1999-03-07) —
digimon-digivice[fictional] — Digimon Adventure (Toei animated series, premiered 7 March 1999; derived from the 1997 Tamagotchi-style ‘Digital Monster’ virtual-pet device); a small worn/clipped device with a display that monitors …Fitbit Tracker (2009) — clip-on accelerometer activity and sleep monitor (2009-10)
- id:
fitbit-tracker-2009 - corpus: private
- form factor: pendant
- creator: Fitbit, Inc. (James Park, Eric Friedman)
- disclosure: Fitbit, Inc. ‘Fitbit Tracker’, launched October 2009 — a clip-worn device with a 3-axis accelerometer estimating steps, distance, calories burned, active minutes, and sleep quality, syncing wirelessly to a web dashboard. (The wrist PPG heart-rate variant, Fitbit Charge HR, followed in January 2015.)
- ip status: patented
- sensors: sensor-accelerometer
- algorithms: algo-step-count, algo-calorie-estimation, algo-activity-classification, algo-sleep-staging
- prior art notes: Discloses a small body-worn (clip) device with a 3-axis accelerometer that estimates step count, distance, calories, active minutes, and sleep quality on-device and syncs wirelessly to a cloud dashboard. Anticipates consumer-activity-tracker claims combining ‘a body-worn accelerometer’, ‘on-device estimation of steps/calories/activity/sleep’, and ‘wireless sync to a remote service’ from 2009. Anchor for the step-count and consumer-sleep-tracking cross-cuts on the product side.
Black Panther ‘Kimoyo beads’ (2018-02-16)
- id:
black-panther-kimoyo-beads - corpus: fictional
- form factor: bracelet
- creator: Marvel Studios
- disclosure: Black Panther (Marvel Studios), released February 16, 2018; the wrist-worn ‘Kimoyo beads’ — bracelet beads providing voice/holographic communication, holographic information display, remote vehicle/device control, and on-body medical diagnostics and treatment.
- ip status: fictional
- prior art notes: Discloses a wrist-worn bracelet of modular beads functioning as (a) a voice/visual communicator, (b) a projected holographic display surface, (c) a remote controller for paired vehicles and devices, and (d) an on-body medical scanner reporting injury and physiological state. Relevant to bracelet/wristband claims combining ‘a band of modular elements’, ‘a display’, ‘a wireless transceiver for device control’, and ‘sensors for physiological measurement’. § 103 motivation that the multifunction medical/communication wrist bracelet was an articulated objective by 2018.