Patent ID: 8611601

Claim:
A method of identifying individuals comprising: capturing with a mobile device a real-time video stream of a user's environment, the video stream including images from the user's environment; determining, via a processor, which images from the real-time video stream are associated with a person meeting a predetermined criteria, wherein determining which images from the real-time video stream are associated with a person meeting a predetermined criteria comprises identifying an individual from the image captured in the real-time video stream, and wherein identifying an individual from the image captured in the real-time video stream comprises: collecting images available to the user, comparing identifiable characteristics from the captured images with the images available to the user, wherein comparing identifiable characteristics from the captured images with the images available to the user comprises modifying the images available to the user to adjust for changes that are likely to have occurred to the individual due to the passage of time, and identifying information about the individual if the comparison of the captured image to the images available to the user suggests a match; and presenting, via a display on the mobile device, one or more indicators, each indicator associated with an image determined to be a person meeting a predetermined criteria.