MUMBAI, India, June 30 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202641073779 A) filed by Vellore Institute Of Technology on June 14, 2026, for Augmented Reality Bus Navigation System Using Ocr-Based Bus Identification.
Inventors include Arpan Garai; Ameekha Sherin; Alyssa Mariam Kuruvilla; R. S. Shreenidhi; and Fathima Raazia Bint Aju.
The application for the patent was published on June 26, 2026, under issue no. 26/2026.
Abstract: AUGMENTED REALITY BUS NAVIGATION SYSTEM USING OCR-BASED BUS IDENTIFICATION The present invention relates to a mobile-based augmented reality navigation system for public bus transport. The system comprises an Android application configured to capture a bus image through a mobile device camera and a FastAPI backend configured to process the captured image using a two-stage computer vision pipeline. A first YOLOv8n model detects and extracts a license plate region from the captured image, while a second YOLOv8n model recognizes alphanumeric characters to generate a vehicle registration string. The generated string is validated using an Indian vehicle registration pattern and matched with route information stored in a SQLite database. The system retrieves route details, destination information, upcoming stops, and estimated time of arrival (ETA), and displays the retrieved information as a real-time augmented reality overlay for automatic bus identification and navigation guidance. [Figure 1]
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