MUMBAI, India, Sept. 28 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202641111849 A) filed by Vellore Institute Of Technology, Chennai on September 17, 2026, for Home Assistance System For Hearing And Speech Impaired Users And Method Thereof.
Inventors include Sujatha. M; Dhanalakshmi R; S Gopinath; Vishal E S; and Kalyanasundaram V.
The application for the patent was published on September 25, 2026, under issue no. 39/2026.
Abstract: A home assistance system (100) for hearing and speech impaired users includes a wearable device (102) to generate haptic alerts, and user-actuatable inputs; an image acquisition unit (110) positioned a door near an entrance of a building to capture images of visitors standing at door; a face recognition unit (112) to generate facial embeddings from captured images and compare generated facial embeddings with pre-stored identity of facial embeddings to classify visitors as recognized or unrecognized; a sensor (114) positioned on building to detect ambient environmental conditions exceeding a threshold; and a processor (116) transmits visitor classification information from face recognition unit (112) to wearable device (102) to display a visual notification and generates a haptic alert pattern in response to visitor classification information or environmental conditions exceeding threshold. The processor (116) causes the visitor-facing display to display a predefined message to a visitor upon actuation of the user-actuatable input.
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