MUMBAI, India, Sept. 14 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202641105831 A) filed by Vellore Institute Of Technology, Chennai on September 02, 2026, for Assistive Navigation Apparatus And Method Thereof.
Inventors include Sunil Kumar Pradhan; Lee Thatheyus Ralph A R; Saksham Pundir; and Prashant Kumar.
The application for the patent was published on September 11, 2026, under issue no. 37/2026.
Abstract: An assistive navigation apparatus (100) for visually impaired individuals is disclosed. The apparatus (100) includes a processor (106) and a memory (108) storing instructions that, when executed by the processor (106), capture, by a capture unit (110), a visual input from an environment surrounding a user. A mode-switching unit (112) selectively activates one vision pipeline at a time from a plurality of vision pipelines (114) based on a received interrupt signal. Each activated vision pipeline processes the visual input to generate a descriptive output corresponding to at least one environmental condition. A speech synthesis unit (116) converts the descriptive output into an audio signal and delivers the audio signal to the user. A safety subsystem (104) continuously determines a geographic position of the apparatus (100) and transmits a location-based alert to at least one recipient upon receiving a trigger signal, independently of the plurality of vision pipelines (114).
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