Cross-cut: `sensor-camera-rgb`

Axis: sensors

25 corpus entries disclose this tag.

Earliest disclosure: 1962-09-23

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

The Jetsons wrist communicator / video watch (1962-09-23)

id: jetsons-wrist-communicator
corpus: fictional
form factor: watch
creator: Hanna-Barbera Productions
disclosure: The Jetsons (Hanna-Barbera animated series), premiered September 23, 1962, ABC; recurring wristworn video-communication device.
ip status: fictional
sensors: sensor-camera-rgb
prior art notes: Mass-audience depiction of a wristworn device combining a display, a camera, and two-way audio for video calling, plus ancillary timekeeping. Reinforces the § 103 record that a wristworn videophone/smartwatch combining display + camera + audio + clock was an articulated design objective by the early 1960s.

Dick Tracy 2-Way Wrist TV (1964)

id: dick-tracy-2way-wrist-tv
corpus: fictional
form factor: watch
creator: Chester Gould
disclosure: Dick Tracy comic strip, Chester Gould; the ‘2-Way Wrist TV’ introduced 1964, succeeding the 1946 wrist radio.
ip status: fictional
sensors: sensor-camera-rgb
prior art notes: Adds a camera and a video display to the wristworn-comm form factor — i.e. wristworn two-way video calling. Discloses the ‘a display’ element, the ‘an image sensor’ element, and the ‘configured to transmit/receive video’ element of wristworn-videophone and smartwatch-camera claims. Non-enabling; serves § 103 motivation that wristworn video telephony was a known objective by 1964.

Inspector Gadget’s wrist computer (‘Gadget-phone’) (1983-09-12)

id: inspector-gadget-wrist-computer
corpus: fictional
form factor: watch
creator: DIC Audiovisuel
disclosure: Inspector Gadget (DIC animated series), premiered 1983; the multi-function wrist device used for video communication with HQ.
ip status: fictional
sensors: sensor-camera-rgb
prior art notes: Wristworn multi-function device with display, camera, two-way audio, and general-purpose ‘computer’ framing. Cumulative § 103 motivation evidence for the wristworn-multifunction-computer (smartwatch) concept circa early 1980s.

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.

Aliens — Colonial Marine helmet camera with live command feed (1986-07-18)

id: aliens-marine-helmet-cam
corpus: fictional
form factor: helmet
creator: James Cameron / 20th Century Fox
disclosure: Aliens (20th Century Fox), released July 18, 1986; each Colonial Marine’s helmet carries a camera and light that streams live video to a remote tactical console where a commander monitors all squad feeds simultaneously and issues instructions.
ip status: fictional
sensors: sensor-camera-rgb
prior art notes: Discloses head-worn cameras on multiple wearers each streaming live first-person video over a wireless link to a single remote monitoring station that displays all feeds and supports two-way command communication — i.e. the body-worn-camera-to-remote-command-center system. Relevant to claims combining ‘a head- or body-worn camera’, ‘wireless transmission of the video to a remote device’, and ‘a console displaying multiple wearers’ feeds for supervision’. § 103 motivation that networked body-worn camera supervision was an articulated objective by 1986, prior to the modern body-camera and tele-supervision patent space.

RoboCop helmet HUD with recording and database lookup (1987-07-17)

id: robocop-targeting-hud
corpus: fictional
form factor: helmet
creator: Paul Verhoeven / Orion Pictures
disclosure: RoboCop (Orion Pictures), released July 17, 1987; the cyborg officer’s helmet-integrated heads-up display providing targeting reticles, continuous video recording of the wearer’s view, and real-time identification of persons against a records database.
ip status: fictional
sensors: sensor-camera-rgb
prior art notes: Discloses a helmet-integrated near-eye HUD that (a) overlays targeting/aiming graphics on the wearer’s view, (b) continuously records that view, and (c) performs real-time identification of people in view by querying a records database and displaying the match. Relevant to helmet/eyewear claims combining ‘a head-mounted display’, ‘an outward camera’, ‘video recording’, and ‘on-view person identification against a database’. § 103 motivation that the recording, identifying helmet HUD was an articulated objective by 1987.

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.

Dragon Ball ‘Scouter’ (monocular scanning eyewear) (1989-04)

id: dragon-ball-z-scouter
corpus: fictional
form factor: glasses
creator: Akira Toriyama
disclosure: Toriyama, Akira. Dragon Ball (manga), the Saiyan arc introducing the ‘Scouter’ c. April 1989, Shueisha (Dragon Ball Z anime, 1989); a monocular eyewear device that scans a target and displays a quantified strength metric (‘power level’), with two-way voice communication and a head-up readout.
ip status: fictional
sensors: sensor-camera-rgb
prior art notes: Discloses monocular head-worn eyewear that scans a person/object in view, computes and displays a quantified metric about the target, and provides two-way voice comms — all in a single ear-hooked unit with a flip-down display. Relevant to AR-eyewear claims combining ‘a monocular near-eye display’, ‘an outward sensor’, ‘on-view target measurement/identification’, and ‘integrated voice comms’. § 103 motivation that the scan-and-display-a-metric monocular headset was an articulated objective by 1989. Cf. [[black-mirror-nosedive-rating-overlay]].
Sailor Moon — Sailor Guardians’ video communicator wristwatch (1991-12-28) — sailor-moon-communicator-watch [fictional] — Takeuchi, Naoko. Sailor Moon (Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon) (manga), Kodansha, serialization began December 1991 (anime 1992); wrist-worn ‘communicator’ devices used by the Sailor Guardians for two-way …
Snow Crash ‘Gargoyle’ wearable computer rig (1992)
id: snow-crash-gargoyle-rig
corpus: fictional
form factor: glasses
creator: Neal Stephenson
disclosure: Stephenson, Neal. Snow Crash. Bantam Books, 1992 — the ‘gargoyles’: people wearing head-mounted display goggles, body-worn computers, and continuous-capture sensors, with voice query and head tracking.
ip status: fictional
sensors: sensor-camera-rgb, sensor-microphone-air, sensor-accelerometer
prior art notes: Discloses an integrated head-worn AR rig: near-eye display goggles + body-worn processor + always-on cameras and microphones + head-tracking, with voice queries against a networked database and continuous capture/upload of the wearer’s surroundings. Relevant to AR-glasses claims combining ‘a near-eye display’, ‘an outward-facing camera’, ‘an inertial sensor for head pose’, ‘a microphone for voice input’, and ‘continuous data capture/transmission’. § 103 motivation that the always-on capture-and-query AR wearable was a concrete objective by 1992. Non-enabling; pair with enabling HMD/SLAM art.

Iddan et al. (2000) — ‘Wireless capsule endoscopy’ (the foundational ingestible-camera disclosure) (2000-05-25)

id: iddan-2000-wireless-capsule-endoscopy
corpus: academic
form factor: ingestible
creator: Gavriel Iddan / Gavriel Meron / Arkady Glukhovsky / Paul Swain (Given Imaging)
disclosure: Iddan G, Meron G, Glukhovsky A, Swain P. ‘Wireless capsule endoscopy.’ Nature 2000;405(6785):417.
ip status: public-domain
sensors: sensor-camera-rgb
prior art notes: Discloses a swallowable wireless capsule incorporating an imaging sensor, illumination, transmitter and battery that captures and transmits images of the gastrointestinal mucosa as it passes through the gut — i.e. the ingestible camera. Any claim reciting ‘an ingestible capsule comprising an image sensor and a wireless transmitter for imaging the gastrointestinal tract’ reads on Iddan et al. 2000. Anchor for the ingestible × camera cross-cut; product realization in [[pillcam-given-imaging-2001]]; cf. the fictional antecedents [[fantastic-voyage-intravascular-craft]] (1966) and [[the-matrix-navel-tracking-bug]] (1999).

PillCam SB (Given Imaging, 2001) — first FDA-cleared wireless capsule endoscope (2001-08)

id: pillcam-given-imaging-2001
corpus: private
form factor: ingestible
creator: Given Imaging Ltd. (founders Gavriel Iddan, Gavriel Meron)
disclosure: Given Imaging Ltd. (later Medtronic). ‘M2A’ capsule (subsequently ‘PillCam SB’) wireless capsule endoscope, FDA-cleared 1 August 2001 — a swallowable capsule with a CMOS image sensor, LED illumination, battery and radio that images the small-bowel mucosa over ~8 hours, transmitting frames to an external belt-worn receiver/recorder. CE-marked May 2001; renamed PillCam SB in September 2004.
ip status: patented
sensors: sensor-camera-rgb
prior art notes: Discloses the commercial ingestible imaging capsule: a swallowable CMOS-camera capsule with onboard illumination, battery and radio, imaging the GI mucosa during transit and streaming frames to a body-worn receiver/recorder. Product realization of [[iddan-2000-wireless-capsule-endoscopy]]; anticipates ingestible-camera claims from 2001. Anchor for the ingestible × camera cross-cut on the real side.

Rainbows End AR contact lenses and ‘wearing’ (2006)

id: rainbows-end-ar-contact-lens
corpus: fictional
form factor: contact-lens
creator: Vernor Vinge
disclosure: Vinge, Vernor. Rainbows End. Tor Books, 2006 — augmented-reality contact lenses plus clothing-integrated compute (‘wearing’), with gaze and gesture control, persistent shared overlays, view-sharing, and a developer ecosystem of competing AR platforms.
ip status: fictional
sensors: sensor-camera-eye, sensor-camera-rgb
algorithms: algo-eye-gaze-tracking
prior art notes: Among the most specific fictional anticipations of modern AR eyewear: discloses (a) AR contact lenses rendering registered overlays, (b) clothing-integrated computing and sensing as the host platform, (c) gaze tracking and subtle gesture as the primary input modality, (d) multi-user shared/synchronized overlays and view-sharing, and (e) an open developer ecosystem with competing AR layers. Relevant to AR-contact-lens claims, gaze-controlled AR claims, and shared/collaborative-AR claims. § 103 motivation, circa 2006, toward essentially the entire modern AR-eyewear feature set. Non-enabling on optics and power; pair with enabling contact-lens-display and low-power-display art.

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]].

Halting State AR glasses (‘CopSpace’ and ARG overlays) (2007)

id: halting-state-ar-glasses
corpus: fictional
form factor: glasses
creator: Charles Stross
disclosure: Stross, Charles. Halting State. Ace Books, 2007 — networked AR glasses with role-specific overlay layers (police ‘CopSpace’), shared annotations, gaze interaction, and alternate-reality-game overlays as a plot mechanism.
ip status: fictional
sensors: sensor-camera-rgb, sensor-camera-eye
algorithms: algo-eye-gaze-tracking
prior art notes: Discloses AR glasses with switchable, permission-scoped overlay layers (an enterprise/role ‘channel’ model), networked shared annotations registered to physical locations, gaze-driven UI, and overlapping game/social overlay layers. Relevant to AR-eyewear claims about layer/channel management, location-anchored shared annotations, and access-controlled AR content. § 103 motivation, circa 2007, that multi-layer permissioned networked AR eyewear was a concrete objective.

Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol — contact-lens camera and document scanner (2011-12-16)

id: mi-ghost-protocol-contact-lens-camera
corpus: fictional
form factor: contact-lens
creator: Brad Bird / Paramount Pictures
disclosure: Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol (Paramount Pictures), released December 16, 2011; contact lenses that capture imagery on a deliberate double-blink, store and wirelessly transmit it, and scan documents for relay to a body-worn printer.
ip status: fictional
sensors: sensor-camera-rgb, sensor-camera-eye
prior art notes: Discloses a corneal contact lens incorporating an image sensor, triggered by an intentional eyelid gesture (double-blink), with on-lens or near-body storage and wireless transmission of the captured imagery. Relevant to contact-lens claims combining ‘a contact lens’, ‘an image sensor’, ‘a blink-detection trigger’, and ‘wireless transmission of captured images’. § 103 motivation that the camera-bearing, blink-triggered contact lens was an articulated objective by 2011. Non-enabling on lens-scale optics/power; pair with enabling contact-lens-electronics art.

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.

The Circle — ‘SeeChange’ wearable cameras and employee health wristbands (2013-10-08)

id: the-circle-seechange-and-health-wristbands
corpus: fictional
form factor: bracelet
creator: Dave Eggers
disclosure: Eggers, Dave. The Circle. Alfred A. Knopf, 2013 (film adaptation 2017); ‘SeeChange’ miniature wearable/mountable cameras streaming continuously, and employee wristbands (worn in pairs on each wrist) that continuously monitor heart rate, activity, sleep, and other physiological data and upload it to the company.
ip status: fictional
sensors: sensor-ppg, sensor-accelerometer, sensor-camera-rgb
algorithms: algo-hr, algo-step-count, algo-sleep-staging
prior art notes: Discloses (a) continuously-worn wristbands with PPG and motion sensing that stream heart rate, activity, and sleep data to an employer, and (b) tiny body-wearable always-streaming cameras. Relevant to workplace-wellness wearable claims combining ‘a wrist-worn PPG/motion sensor’, ‘continuous physiological streaming to a remote/employer system’, and to body-worn-camera streaming claims. § 103 motivation that the employer-monitored wrist wearable and the always-streaming wearable camera were articulated objectives by 2013.

Falcon — ‘EXO-7’ wing-pack exoskeleton with HUD goggles and tethered drone (2014-04-04)

id: falcon-exo7-wing-pack-and-goggles
corpus: fictional
form factor: exoskeleton
creator: Marvel Studios
disclosure: Captain America: The Winter Soldier (Marvel Studios), released 4 April 2014; a back-mounted articulated wing-pack exoskeleton with HUD goggles for targeting/telemetry and a paired deployable reconnaissance drone (‘Redwing’) controlled from the rig.
ip status: fictional
sensors: sensor-camera-rgb
prior art notes: Discloses a body-worn articulated exoskeletal rig with integrated near-eye HUD goggles and a paired, rig-controlled drone whose camera feed appears in the wearer’s display. Relevant to wearable-exoskeleton claims combining ‘a body-mounted articulated assembly’, ‘a head-worn display’, and ‘control of a tethered/paired drone with its feed shown to the wearer’. § 103 motivation as of 2014. Cf. [[aliens-marine-helmet-cam]] (networked body-cam), [[snow-crash-gargoyle-rig]].

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).

id: black-mirror-nosedive-rating-overlay
corpus: fictional
form factor: implantable
creator: Charlie Brooker / Rashida Jones / Michael Schur / House of Tomorrow
disclosure: Black Mirror, ‘Nosedive’ (Netflix, 21 October 2016); an ocular implant paired with a handset overlays every person in view with their live aggregate social rating, updated continuously from peer ratings of every interaction.
ip status: fictional
sensors: sensor-camera-rgb
prior art notes: Discloses an ocular AR device that recognizes people in view and renders a live reputation/score badge beside each, with the score continuously updated from crowd ratings of interactions. Relevant to AR-eyewear claims combining ‘person recognition’, ‘retrieval of a per-person reputation metric’, and ‘real-time overlay of the metric on the recognized person’. § 103 motivation that the AR reputation overlay was an articulated objective by 2016. Cf. [[dragon-ball-z-scouter]] (an earlier scan-and-display-a-metric eyewear).

Horizon Zero Dawn — the ‘Focus’ (compact ear/temple-worn AR scanner with object analysis and log playback) (2017-02-28)

id: horizon-zero-dawn-focus
corpus: fictional
form factor: earbud
creator: Guerrilla Games / Sony Interactive Entertainment
disclosure: Horizon Zero Dawn (Guerrilla Games / Sony, released 28 February 2017); the ‘Focus’ — a small triangular device worn at the temple/ear that provides AR overlays, scans and analyses machines and people in view (highlighting structure, components, and weak points), records and replays holographic/audio ‘datapoint’ logs, and networks with infrastructure.
ip status: fictional
sensors: sensor-camera-rgb
prior art notes: Discloses a compact ear/temple-worn device providing AR overlays, real-time scanning and structural analysis of objects/persons in view, recording and playback of geolocated holographic/audio logs, and networked operation — all in a minimal form factor. Relevant to compact-AR-wearable claims combining ‘an ear- or temple-worn device’, ‘an outward sensor’, ‘on-view object/person analysis with overlay’, and ‘recorded-log capture and playback’. § 103 motivation as of 2017. Cf. [[dragon-ball-z-scouter]], [[metal-gear-solid-sneaking-suit-and-solid-eye]], [[her-samantha-earpiece]].

Stark ‘Iron Spider’ suit with mask HUD and AI (‘Karen’) (2017-07-07)

id: stark-iron-spider-suit
corpus: fictional
form factor: garment
creator: Marvel Studios / Sony Pictures
disclosure: Spider-Man: Homecoming (Marvel Studios / Sony), released July 7, 2017; the Stark-built suit with an in-mask heads-up display, an integrated conversational AI (‘Karen’), distributed suit sensors, environmental analysis, biometric monitoring of the wearer, a deployable drone, and configurable web-shooter telemetry.
ip status: fictional
sensors: sensor-camera-rgb, sensor-accelerometer, sensor-microphone-air
algorithms: algo-emotion-recognition
prior art notes: Discloses a smart full-body garment integrating: an in-mask near-eye HUD; a conversational AI assistant resident in the suit; distributed suit sensors and environmental analysis (object/person identification, threat assessment); biometric monitoring of the wearer (HR, respiration, stress); and reconfigurable actuator/output settings. Relevant to smart-garment and helmet-HUD claims combining ‘a body-worn garment with distributed sensors’, ‘a head-mounted display presenting environmental and physiological data’, ‘a voice AI’, and ‘wearer biometric monitoring’. § 103 motivation that the integrated sensing/HUD/AI body suit was an articulated objective by 2017.

Black Mirror ‘Arkangel’ parental-monitoring neural implant (2017-12-29)

id: black-mirror-arkangel-implant
corpus: fictional
form factor: implantable
creator: Charlie Brooker / House of Tomorrow
disclosure: Black Mirror, ‘Arkangel’ (Netflix, 29 December 2017); a neural implant given to a child providing the parent with GPS location, vital-sign monitoring, a live first-person video feed, and real-time visual censoring (pixelating distressing sights and muting sounds in the child’s perception).
ip status: fictional
sensors: sensor-camera-rgb
prior art notes: Discloses an implanted device that (a) reports the wearer’s location and vitals to a remote guardian, (b) streams the wearer’s first-person view, and (c) modifies the wearer’s own perception in real time (visual redaction, audio attenuation). Relevant to implantable-monitoring claims combining ‘location + physiological telemetry to a remote party’, ‘first-person video streaming’, and ‘perceptual filtering of the wearer’s sensory input’. § 103 motivation that the perception-modifying monitoring implant was an articulated objective by 2017. Cf. [[black-mirror-grain-implant]], [[black-mirror-z-eye-redaction]].

Cross-cut: sensor-camera-rgb