MUMBAI, India, May 29 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202621033723 A) filed by Asalkar Gayatri Girish; Varak Lavannya Ramchandra; Shedge Shruti Samir; Sakunke Shravani Shivaji; and Vaidya Shreya Digambar, Pune, Maharashtra, on March 20, for 'signbridge: a modular and low-resource speech-to-indian sign language translation system.'
Inventor(s) include Asalkar Gayatri Girish; Varak Lavannya Ramchandra; Shedge Shruti Samir; Sakunke Shravani Shivaji; and Vaidya Shreya Digambar.
The application for the patent was published on May 29, under issue no. 22/2026.
According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "This paper introduces SignBridge, an Indian Sign Language translation system, which is modular and does not use many resources. The system is a combination of speech recognition, rule-based natural language processing, gloss generation and avatar-based animation that can transform spoken English to an ISL compatible visual representation. The system, unlike the traditional deep learning methods, focuses on grammatical correctness, interpretability, and scalability without the need to use large datasets. The suggested solution facilitates the real-time communication and it enhances the accessibility to the Deaf community in different areas.The system is also rule-based, so it guarantees a structured and transparent process of translation and makes it reliable and easy to analyze. Avatar based visualization facilitates understanding by the user since it gives clear and expressive signs outputs. In general, the invention will be an efficient and effective method of setting the communication gap bridging in low-resource settings."
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