Intersection cross-cut: watch ∩ sensor-camera-rgb
Axes: form_factor × sensors
4 corpus entries disclose both tags.
Earliest disclosure: 1962-09-23
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.
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
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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.
- 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 …