Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.

Nithya Krishnaswamy

Donna L Polehn

David Chiang

Steven Roy Rados

Kumar Sanjeev

Kent William Hughes

Thomas W Haynes

Brian Olson

A system may use optical character recognition ('OCR') techniques to identify license plates or other textual information associated with vehicles. Based on this OCR information, the system may determine additional information, such as users associated with the vehicles. The system may further obtain other information, such as history information associated with the vehicles and/or the users (e.g., via an 'opt-in' data collection service). Ad content may be selected based on trends associated with the users and/or vehicles, and may be presented via &#x201c;smart&#x201d; billboards (e.g., billboards that may dynamically display different content).

Presenting smart billboard content based on optical pattern recognition of vehicle information

A user device may be used to prevent a user from driving a vehicle while distracted by the user device. The user device may create a user profile, determine whether the user is driving, and collect usage data while the user is driving. The user profile may include information regarding the driver's propensity to be distracted while driving and the usage data may include information on whether the user is actually distracted by the user device. The user device may determine whether the driver is distracted based on the user profile and the usage data, and may respond in one or more ways, such as by alerting the driver with an audio signal, disabling a feature of the user device, logging instances of user distraction with a diagnostics device, activating a braking system of the vehicle, warning nearby drivers about the driver being distracted, and more.

Distracted driver prevention systems and methods

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Nithya Krishnaswamy