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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 05, 2023
Filed:
Jan. 19, 2022
Uipco, Llc, San Antonio, TX (US);
Thomas Wayne Schwarz, Jr., Helotes, TX (US);
Jeanie Graciela Lopez, San Antonio, TX (US);
Janelle Denice Dziuk, Falls City, TX (US);
Paula Ann Whittington, Helotes, TX (US);
Donald Nathaniel Holloway, III, San Antonio, TX (US);
Jennifer Hunt Erickson, San Antonio, TX (US);
Will Kerns Maney, Jr., San Antonio, TX (US);
Bradley Jay Billman, Celina, TX (US);
Noe Alberto Martinez, San Antonio, TX (US);
Jose L. Romero, Jr., San Antonio, TX (US);
Bharat Prasad, San Antonio, TX (US);
United Services Automobile Association (USAA), San Antonio, TX (US);
Abstract
A system and method for helping a user carrying a smart device to maintain safe distances from other persons during an epidemic or a pandemic. A portable smart device measures the approximate distance to persons in the vicinity of the user, and notifies the user whenever he or she is too close to other persons. The portable smart device may overlay augmented reality graphics (such as arcs, lines, text, numbers, or other graphics) over images captured by the smart device's camera, to indicate safe distances. The graphics serve to inform and/or warn the user that he or she may be getting too close to other persons.