MUMBAI, India, May 29 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202641061023 A) filed by Vellore Institute Of Technology, Vellore, Tamil Nadu, on May 14, for 'system and method for traffic-flow adaptive pedestrian crosswalk control.'
Inventor(s) include Archana Tamizharasan; Varshitha V; Y R Akshaya; Neha MK; and E Yamunadevi.
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 traffic-flow adaptive pedestrian crosswalk control system (100) for regulating pedestrian and vehicular signals at an intersection is disclosed. The system (100) includes a processor (102), a memory (104) storing executable instructions, and an interface for receiving traffic data in the form of multiple video streams corresponding to different directions of the intersection. The processor (102) extracts image frames at predefined time intervals and processes the frames using an object detection model to identify pedestrians and vehicles and generate corresponding counts. Detection outputs from multiple directions are aggregated for a common time interval to obtain total pedestrian and vehicle counts. Based on the aggregated data, a traffic occupancy level is determined and a control state is evaluated by comparing pedestrian and vehicle counts. The control state includes pedestrian-priority, vehicle-priority, or transition conditions. A control signal corresponding to the determined state is generated and provided to a traffic signal controller for regulating pedestrian and vehicular signals."
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