MUMBAI, India, May 29 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202641063602 A) filed by Coimbatore Institue Of Technology, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, on May 20, for 'smart proctoring system for offline exams.'
Inventor(s) include Geethai Priya J; Hariharan R; Saran S; Kirsum Ori; and Dr. M. Mohanapriya.
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: "A smart proctoring system and method for monitoring an offline examination environment in real time are disclosed. The system comprises an Internet Protocol camera capturing a live video stream over an RTSP connection, a processing unit decoding the stream into video frames, a preprocessing module, a unified single-stage deep-learning detection model, a decision module, a visualisation module, and an alerting subsystem comprising a web-application backend, a cloud-messaging service and a web-accessible invigilator dashboard. The unified detection model, based upon a YOLOv8 architecture having a single shared anchor-free detection head, is concurrently trained to output, within a single inference pass, bounding boxes, class labels and confidence scores corresponding to both at least one unauthorised-object class (including mobile phone, paper materials and inter-candidate paper exchange) and at least one abnormal-posture class. The unified architecture eliminates a separate downstream pose-estimation pipeline and its keypoint classifier, reducing aggregate inference latency, enhancing computational efficiency of the processing unit, and transforming general-purpose computing hardware into a specialised real-time examination-monitoring apparatus. Suspicious-frame events trigger persistent evidentiary snapshots and push notifications upon the invigilator dashboard for contemporaneous intervention."
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