Patent ID: 9351118
Filing Date: 2016-05-24
CPC Classification: G06F,G06Q,H04N,H04W

Claim Text:
1. A mobile device comprising a processor, a display, a camera, a GPS sensor, an orientation sensor, and an application for visually connecting people, which when launched by a user, enables the mobile device to perform operations comprising: detecting a current GPS position of the user; displaying a user representation of the user's GPS position on a map; detecting a current location of members of a group, which the user created or is a member of, if the group members have a similar mobile device having the application for visually connecting people and if they have set the application for visually connecting people to detect their GPS position and to permit their visibility when the user or other group members wish to locate them by scanning their surroundings live, with the camera of their mobile device; determining what the mobile device's camera is seeing during the live scanning using the orientation sensor and the GPS sensor; and, for each group member detected while the user is scanning user's surroundings with the camera of the mobile device, said each group member having a GPS position corresponding with a point in a direction the mobile device's camera points to at a particular moment during the scanning, displaying on the mobile device's display a live image of the surroundings as captured by the camera of the mobile device during the live scanning and a group member representation associated with the group member's GPS position over said live image.