MUMBAI, India, Jan. 9 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202541133167 A) filed by Vellore Institute Of Technology, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, on Dec. 29, 2025, for 'system and method for multimodal fear recognition and covert emergency response.'
Inventor(s) include G. Sudhakaran; C. U. Om Kumar; Mohamed Farhan C S; Sushanth B S; and Harsha Vishal S.
The application for the patent was published on Jan. 9, under issue no. 02/2026.
According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "The present disclosure provides a multimodal fear recognition and covert emergency response system. The system 100 includes a plurality of sensors (102) and environmental sensors (104) to generate physiological, behavioral and contextual data streams associated with a user. A feature extraction module (108) process the generated data streams to extract time-stamped features, to be dynamically weighed and fused by a multi-sensor fusion engine (110) and generate a fear risk score. Based on user activity profile, an adaptive thresholding module (112) updates user-specific baseline and adjusts detection threshold using an on-device incremental learning model. The fear detection engine (114) detects a distress event when the fear risk score exceeds the user specific baseline and the detection threshold for predetermined duration and is validated by the contextual data streams to suppress benign events. Upon detection of the distress event, a covert emergency protocol is initiated to perform one or more actions."
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