Augmented Reality User Matching System with Location-Based Profile Display
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current dating and social connection applications lack the integration of augmented reality technology to facilitate user matching and interaction based on common interests and locations.
Innovation Solution
A mobile application system utilizing augmented reality (AR) to match users and brands by combining GPS data with AR algorithms, allowing users to view and interact with profile posts of nearby individuals and brands that share common hashtags, enabling video calls and transactions through an Internet-connected server and data repository.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If traditional dating applications use profile-based matching, then users can connect based on common interests, but the system lacks real-time location-based interaction and augmented reality integration
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines multiple technologies including GPS location tracking, augmented reality rendering, and social media profile data into a unified application. The system merges real-time location data with AR image processing to display profile posts in the user's visual field, creating an integrated experience that transcends traditional profile-based matching alone
Solution Approach 2:
The application serves multiple functions: it acts as a dating app, a location-based service, an augmented reality viewer, and a social media platform simultaneously. The same system enables users to view profiles, track locations, interact through AR, and communicate via text or video calls, making the device and software highly versatile
2Speed
If the system integrates GPS and AR algorithms for location-based matching, then real-time user discovery is improved, but processing requirements and computational load increase
Solution Approach 1:
The system pre-loads and caches profile data, images, and user information before they are needed for display. By preparing content in advance and storing it locally, the application reduces real-time processing requirements during AR rendering and user interaction, thereby lowering instantaneous energy consumption while maintaining fast user discovery
Solution Approach 2:
The system creates and displays copied representations of user profiles as AR overlays rather than processing and transmitting full-resolution images continuously. The AR posts are rendered versions of profile data that can be generated on-demand from cached information, reducing the computational energy needed for real-time image processing
3Ease of operation
If profile posts are displayed in AR view based on relative position, then spatial awareness and user interaction are enhanced, but display complexity and rendering requirements increase
Solution Approach 1:
The AR display renders profile posts with different visual properties based on their spatial relationship to the user. Profiles closer to the user's location are displayed with higher prominence, larger size, or different visual characteristics, while distant profiles are rendered with reduced detail. This local differentiation simplifies the overall rendering complexity by applying quality variations rather than uniform high-fidelity rendering to all elements
Data Source
AI summary
A matching and communication system has a first mobile device associated with a first user, and a second mobile device associated with a second user, an Internet connected server having a processor executing coded instructions, and coupled to a data repository, a first profile for the first user, comprising a photograph of the first user and a plurality of first hashtags in the first profile, the first profile stored in the data repository; and a second profile for the second user, comprising a photograph of the second user and a plurality of second hashtags in the second profile, the second profile stored in the data repository. The server determines that the devices are proximate a profile post is displayed for the second user in a display for the first user.