MUMBAI, India, Sept. 14 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202631086170 A) filed by National Institute Of Technology Rourkela on July 14, 2026, for Portable Bidirectional Assistive Communication Device.

Inventors include Dr. Mohit Lal; Mr. Subhojit Mohanty; and Mr. Spandan Bhoi.

The application for the patent was published on September 11, 2026, under issue no. 37/2026.

Abstract: ABSTRACT Disclosed herein is a portable bidirectional assistive communication device (100), comprising a housing (102) configured to accommodate all components of the device, a camera (104) configured to capture image frames, a microphone (106) receive spoken language, a speaker unit (108) generate audible speech output, a processing unit (118) configured to process gesture information, further comprises a data input module (120) receive real-time data, a pre-processing module (122) clean, normalize and reduce the noise, a feature extraction module (124) extract visual features, a gesture recognition module (126) identify sign language gestures, a speech recognition module (128) convert received speech input into text information, a text processing module (130) generate textual information, a sign generation module (132) convert text information into sign-language, a text-to-speech module (134) convert text information into speech output, an output module (136) transmit text information, sign-language, and speech output. A user interface (138) display text information and sign-language.

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