MUMBAI, India, Jan. 3 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202511103596 A) filed by Manipal University, Jaipur, Rajasthan, on Oct. 28, 2025, for 'smart visual aid.'
Inventor(s) include Prabhutva Gupta; Yadvendra Pratap Singh; Paras Ravishankar Geed; and Rohan Singhal.
The application for the patent was published on Dec. 12, under issue no. 50/2025.
According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "The present invention relates to a smart visual aid for visually impaired which are supported by AI. The smart aid comprises a glass integrates multiple sensors, including proximity sensors, light sensors, and inertial measurement unit (IMU) sensors, to detect and interpret the surrounding environment; a high-resolution camera module (Raspberry Pi Camera or ESP32-CAM) is embedded in the smart glasses to capture printed text and the surrounding objects or activities; an ESP32 microcontroller for handling initial image processing and Bluetooth communication; Tesseract OCR, Google Vision API, and AI-based text detection models (EAST, CRAFT) for accurate recognition of printed and handwritten text; and earphones. It will help visually impaired individuals in real time object recognition and will help them get the output as a speech using text to speech functionality. Further, the system integrates AI-driven computer vision and deep leaning ML models which includes convolutional neural networks (CNNs) for object detections and OCR-based text recognition. This invention enables visually impaired users to perceive their environment and access textual information immediately through speech output."
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