Patent ID: 11902477
Assignee: nan
Field: Audio-visual technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H  G | IPC G  H

Claim 15:
16. A method of operating a first mobile phone associated with a first user comprising:
sending first information over a first connection to a second mobile phone, the first information including a first facial template including numerical parameters determined from a first image captured by the first mobile phone in which a face of the first user of the first mobile phone appears; and
receiving from the second mobile phone associated with a second user, a second image, the second image automatically sent from the second mobile phone over a second connection in response to determining a match between the first facial template and a second facial template, the second facial template including numerical parameters determined from a subject face corresponding to the first user appearing in the second image, the second image captured at the second mobile phone in response to user inputs received from the second user, the match determined by the second mobile phone based on a computation including two or more of a face match probability, a position match probability, and an orientation match probability,
wherein the first mobile phone and the second mobile phone are operable to share the second image without using either a cellular network or an infrastructure WIFI network and wherein the first connection and the second connection are both single hop connections.