Cross-cut: sensor-camera-ir

Axis: sensors

18 corpus entries disclose this tag.

Earliest disclosure: 1959-10

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

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Starship Troopers — Mobile Infantry powered armor (powered exoskeleton with HUD, multi-sensor suite, comms, biomonitoring) (1959-10)

• id: heinlein-starship-troopers-powered-armor
• corpus: fictional
• form factor: exoskeleton
• creator: Robert A. Heinlein
• disclosure: Heinlein, Robert A. Starship Troopers, serialized as ‘Starship Soldier’ in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, October-November 1959 (book edition 1959); the Mobile Infantry powered armor — a fully enclosing powered exoskeleton augmenting strength and mobility, with a HUD/’snoopers’, integrated radar/IR/audio sensors, encrypted comms, climate control, medical/biometric monitoring, and assistive control (‘the suit does part of your thinking for you’).
• ip status: fictional
• sensors: sensor-camera-ir, sensor-microphone-air, sensor-accelerometer
• prior art notes: Discloses a fully enclosing powered exoskeleton integrating strength/mobility augmentation, a head-up display, a multi-modal sensor suite (radar, IR, audio), encrypted comms, environmental control, wearer biometric monitoring, and assistive autonomy. The foundational powered-armor-with-integrated-sensorium text. Relevant to powered-exoskeleton claims combining ‘a powered body-worn frame’, ‘a HUD’, ‘multiple environmental sensors’, ‘comms’, and ‘monitoring of the wearer’s vital signs’. § 103 motivation as of 1959. Cf. [[halo-mjolnir-armor]], [[crysis-nanosuit]], [[metroid-power-suit]], [[stark-iron-spider-suit]], [[darth-vader-life-support-suit]].

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]].

Cyborg / The Six Million Dollar Man — bionic eye and limbs with sensing (1972)

• id: caidin-cyborg-bionics
• corpus: fictional
• form factor: implantable
• creator: Martin Caidin
• disclosure: Caidin, Martin. Cyborg. Arbor House, 1972 (television series The Six Million Dollar Man, ABC, 1973-1978) — a man fitted with a prosthetic eye providing zoom, telescopic, and infrared vision; prosthetic limbs with augmented force; and integrated sensing and telemetry of the prosthetics’ state.
• ip status: fictional
• sensors: sensor-camera-ir
• prior art notes: Discloses a prosthetic ocular implant offering switchable imaging modes (optical zoom, telescopic magnification, infrared) feeding the wearer’s visual perception, together with powered prosthetic limbs whose force output and internal state are sensed and reported. Relevant to ocular-sensor-implant claims combining ‘a prosthetic eye’, ‘multi-mode imaging’, and ‘coupling to the visual system’, and to powered-prosthesis claims combining ‘an actuator’, ‘force/state sensing’, and ‘telemetry’. § 103 motivation that the multi-mode ocular implant and the sensored powered prosthesis were articulated objectives by 1972. Non-enabling; pair with enabling retinal-prosthesis / powered-prosthesis art.

Terminator T-800 vision HUD (1984-10-26)

• id: terminator-t800-hud
• corpus: fictional
• form factor: fictional-other
• creator: James Cameron / Hemdale Film / Orion Pictures
• disclosure: The Terminator (Orion Pictures), released October 26, 1984; the T-800’s first-person heads-up display overlaying target identification, status readouts, and option menus on a machine-vision feed.
• ip status: fictional
• sensors: sensor-camera-rgb, sensor-camera-ir
• prior art notes: Discloses a head-/eye-locked augmented-reality overlay: a live camera feed annotated in real time with object/threat identification, persistent status indicators, and selectable text menus. Relevant to AR-HUD eyewear and helmet claims combining ‘an image sensor’, ‘a near-eye display’, and ‘a processor configured to overlay object-recognition results’. § 103 motivation that the annotated-live-feed near-eye HUD was a concrete design objective by 1984. Non-enabling on the recognition pipeline; pair with enabling computer-vision art.

Metroid — Samus Aran’s Power Suit (powered armor with multi-mode scan visor and health/environment systems) (1986-08-06)

• id: metroid-power-suit
• corpus: fictional
• form factor: exoskeleton
• creator: Nintendo R&D1 / Retro Studios
• disclosure: Metroid (Nintendo, released 6 August 1986; multi-mode visor system in Metroid Prime, 2002); a fully enclosing powered armored suit with a head-up display, switchable visor modes (combat, scan/analysis, thermal, X-ray), an integrated arm-mounted tool, energy reserves indicating health, and environmental adaptation modules (heat resistance, pressure sealing).
• ip status: fictional
• sensors: sensor-camera-thermal, sensor-camera-ir
• prior art notes: Discloses a powered enclosing suit with a HUD, user-selectable visor modes (combat, scanning/analysis of objects in view, thermal, see-through), an integrated tool, an energy/health reserve indicator, and swappable environmental-protection modules. Relevant to powered-suit claims combining ‘a HUD with multiple selectable imaging/analysis modes’, ‘an integrated status reserve indicator’, and ‘environmental-adaptation modules’. § 103 motivation as of 1986 (multi-mode scan visor as of 2002). Cf. [[heinlein-starship-troopers-powered-armor]], [[halo-mjolnir-armor]], [[splinter-cell-trifocal-goggles]].

Predator bio-mask (multi-spectral helmet HUD) (1987-06-12)

• id: predator-bio-mask
• corpus: fictional
• form factor: helmet
• creator: John McTiernan / 20th Century Fox
• disclosure: Predator (20th Century Fox), released June 12, 1987; the creature’s helmet/mask providing thermal vision, spectral mode-switching, optical zoom, recording/playback, and audio language capture/synthesis.
• ip status: fictional
• sensors: sensor-camera-thermal, sensor-camera-ir, sensor-microphone-air
• prior art notes: Discloses a head-worn enclosure integrating switchable multi-spectral imaging (thermal/IR/visible), digital zoom, on-board recording and playback, and captured-audio processing/synthesis, with a HUD presenting mode and status. Relevant to helmet/eyewear claims combining ‘a thermal imager’, ‘a mode selector among imaging spectra’, ‘a near-eye display’, and ‘audio capture and synthesis’. § 103 motivation that the multi-spectral recording head-display was an articulated objective by 1987.

Geordi La Forge’s VISOR (Star Trek: TNG) (1987-09-28)

• id: star-trek-tng-visor
• corpus: fictional
• form factor: glasses
• creator: Gene Roddenberry / Paramount Television
• disclosure: Star Trek: The Next Generation, ‘Encounter at Farpoint’ (premiered September 28, 1987); the VISOR — eyewear that senses across the electromagnetic spectrum and couples the signal to the wearer’s optic nerves.
• ip status: fictional
• sensors: sensor-camera-ir, sensor-camera-thermal
• prior art notes: Discloses sensory-substitution eyewear: a head-worn multi-spectral sensor (IR/thermal and beyond) whose output is rendered to the wearer as perception, via direct neural coupling at the temples. Relevant to (a) sensory-substitution / vision-aid eyewear claims and (b) eyewear claims that visualize non-visible-spectrum data (thermal/IR/UV overlay glasses). § 103 motivation that head-worn EM-spectrum-extending eyewear was an articulated objective by 1987. Non-enabling on the neural interface.

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.

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.

Star Trek Borg cybernetic implant suite (1989-05-08)

• id: star-trek-borg-implants
• corpus: fictional
• form factor: implantable
• creator: Maurice Hurley / Paramount Television
• disclosure: Star Trek: The Next Generation, ‘Q Who’ (first aired May 8, 1989); the Borg — humanoids fitted with an integrated suite of cybernetic implants: an ocular sensor implant, a cortical processing node, continuous physiological regulation, and a permanent network link to a collective.
• ip status: fictional
• sensors: sensor-camera-ir
• prior art notes: Discloses a coordinated suite of implanted devices: a vision-replacement ocular sensor implant; an implanted processing/computation node interfaced to the nervous system; implanted systems that continuously monitor and regulate the host’s physiology; and a persistent wireless link joining the implants to an external network. Relevant to implantable-sensor-network and implantable-physiological-regulation claims combining ‘a plurality of implanted sensors/effectors’, ‘an implanted processor’, ‘closed-loop physiological control’, and ‘a wireless link to an external system’. § 103 motivation that the networked implantable sensor/regulator suite was an articulated objective by 1989.

Total Recall walk-through whole-body imaging scanner (1990-06-01)

• id: total-recall-walkthrough-body-scanner
• corpus: fictional
• form factor: other
• creator: Paul Verhoeven / Carolco Pictures
• disclosure: Total Recall (TriStar Pictures), released June 1, 1990; the spaceport security archway that produces a real-time full-body anatomical/skeletal image of each person walking through it, highlighting concealed objects.
• ip status: fictional
• sensors: sensor-camera-ir
• prior art notes: Discloses a walk-through portal that images the full body of a person passing through in real time, rendering internal anatomy and detecting concealed items on the body. Relevant to walk-through whole-body scanner claims combining ‘a portal a person passes through’, ‘imaging hardware producing a body image’, and ‘detection of objects carried on the body’ — i.e. the millimeter-wave / backscatter advanced-imaging-technology patent space. § 103 motivation that the walk-through whole-body imager was an articulated objective by 1990. Non-enabling on the imaging physics.

Metal Gear Solid — ‘Sneaking Suit’ with body monitoring and the ‘Solid Eye’ (monocular multi-mode HUD) (1998-09-03)

• id: metal-gear-solid-sneaking-suit-and-solid-eye
• corpus: fictional
• form factor: garment
• creator: Hideo Kojima / Konami
• disclosure: Metal Gear Solid (Konami, released 3 September 1998; ‘Solid Eye’ and adaptive ‘OctoCamo’ suit in Metal Gear Solid 4, 2008); a form-fitting ‘Sneaking Suit’ with body-monitoring (a ‘life’/stamina/’PSYCHE’ readout), a ‘Codec’ communication link, and the ‘Solid Eye’ — a monocular head-worn device with selectable modes (night vision, binocular zoom, threat/contact detection) and an AR overlay — plus an adaptive-camouflage outer layer.
• ip status: fictional
• sensors: sensor-camera-ir, sensor-camera-thermal
• algorithms: algo-stress-index
• prior art notes: Discloses (a) a form-fitting suit with continuous body monitoring (stamina, stress/’psyche’, vitals) and comms, (b) a monocular head-worn device with user-selectable imaging modes (night vision, zoom, threat detection) and an AR overlay, and (c) an adaptive-camouflage outer layer responsive to surroundings. Relevant to instrumented-bodysuit and monocular-AR-HUD claims. § 103 motivation as of 1998 (Solid Eye / OctoCamo as of 2008). Cf. [[dragon-ball-z-scouter]], [[splinter-cell-trifocal-goggles]], [[crysis-nanosuit]].

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.

Splinter Cell — trifocal goggles (multi-spectral vision goggles with selectable modes) (2002-11-17)

• id: splinter-cell-trifocal-goggles
• corpus: fictional
• form factor: goggles
• creator: Ubisoft Montreal
• disclosure: Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell (Ubisoft, released 17 November 2002); head-worn ‘trifocal’ goggles with three selectable vision modes — image-intensified night vision, thermal imaging, and an electromagnetic/EMF-sensing mode.
• ip status: fictional
• sensors: sensor-camera-ir, sensor-camera-thermal
• prior art notes: Discloses head-worn goggles with a user-selectable choice among multiple imaging spectra (intensified visible/NIR, thermal IR, EMF), all in a single device. Relevant to multi-spectral-eyewear claims combining ‘a head-worn display’ and ‘a selector among two or more imaging modalities/spectra’. § 103 motivation as of 2002. Cf. [[predator-bio-mask]], [[metroid-power-suit]], [[shadowrun-cyberware]].

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]].

Batman — cowl with ‘Detective Vision’ (head-worn AR with through-obstacle vitals/skeletal overlay) (2009-08-25)

• id: batman-detective-vision-cowl
• corpus: fictional
• form factor: helmet
• creator: Rocksteady Studios / Eidos Interactive
• disclosure: Batman: Arkham Asylum (Rocksteady / Eidos, released 25 August 2009); the cowl’s ‘Detective Vision’ overlays a real-time augmented view highlighting nearby people’s skeletons and heartbeats through walls, evidence trails, and structural details, with integrated comms.
• ip status: fictional
• sensors: sensor-camera-ir
• prior art notes: Discloses head-worn eyewear/cowl with an AR mode that detects nearby people (including through obstructions), renders their skeletal structure and live heart-rate indication in the wearer’s view, and highlights other scene features, with comms. Relevant to AR-headgear claims combining ‘a near-eye display’, ‘sensing of nearby persons’, ‘overlay of their physiological indicators (e.g. heart rate)’, and ‘highlighting of scene features’. § 103 motivation as of 2009. Cf. [[robocop-targeting-hud]], [[predator-bio-mask]], [[total-recall-walkthrough-body-scanner]].

Kingsman AR glasses (HUD, recording, X-ray, scanning, holographic conferencing) (2014-12-13)

• id: kingsman-ar-glasses
• corpus: fictional
• form factor: glasses
• creator: Matthew Vaughn / Marv Films
• disclosure: Kingsman: The Secret Service (20th Century Fox / Marv Films), 2014; agency eyeglasses providing a heads-up information overlay, point-of-view video recording, see-through (X-ray-style) imaging, object/person scanning, and rendering of remote participants as holographic avatars seated around a table.
• ip status: fictional
• sensors: sensor-camera-rgb, sensor-camera-ir
• prior art notes: Discloses eyeglasses integrating: a near-eye information HUD; an outward camera with POV recording; a see-through imaging mode; an object/person scanning-and-identification function; and shared telepresence rendering remote participants as registered holographic avatars in the wearer’s view. Relevant to AR-glasses claims combining ‘an eyewear frame’, ‘a near-eye display’, ‘an outward camera’, ‘recording’, ‘on-view object/person identification’, and ‘shared/telepresence AR’. § 103 motivation that the fully-featured AR information eyewear was an articulated objective by 2014.

Axon Body 2 (2016) — networked law-enforcement body-worn camera with cloud digital-evidence chain of custody (2016-06)

• id: axon-body-2-police-bodycam-2016
• corpus: private
• form factor: body-camera
• creator: Axon Enterprise, Inc. (formerly TASER International)
• disclosure: Axon Enterprise, Inc. (formerly TASER International). ‘Axon Body 2’ body-worn camera, released 2016 — a chest-mounted body camera with HD video, infrared night vision, ambient audio, pre-event buffering (the prior 30-120 s of video kept and saved on trigger), wireless LTE upload, GPS, and integrated cloud chain-of-custody on the Evidence.com platform.
• ip status: patented
• sensors: sensor-camera-rgb, sensor-camera-ir, sensor-microphone-air
• prior art notes: Discloses a chest-worn networked law-enforcement body camera with HD video, IR night vision, audio, a pre-event circular buffer (capturing seconds before activation), GPS, wireless upload, and integrated cloud chain-of-custody. Anticipates body-worn-camera claims combining ‘a chest-mounted camera’, ‘a continuous pre-event buffer with retrospective save on trigger’, ‘wireless upload to an evidence-management cloud service’, and ‘cryptographic chain of custody’ from 2016. Product-side anchor for the body-camera cross-cut on the real side; cf. [[aliens-marine-helmet-cam]] (the 1986 fictional networked-body-cam antecedent).