MUMBAI, India, Nov. 2 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202641127046 A) filed by Vellore Institute Of Technology on October 25, 2026, for Voice-Operated Assistive System And Method For Visually Impaired Users With Routing Of Spoken Requests.
Inventors include Iyapparaja M; and Jayashree G.
The application for the patent was published on October 30, 2026, under issue no. 44/2026.
Abstract: The present invention discloses a voice-operated assistive system and method for visually impaired users. A mobile device (100) with a microphone (102), camera (104), speaker (106) and action executor (134) communicates with an inference server (110). Spoken requests are transcribed (112) and classified by a request router (114), which dispatches each request to a conversational module (116), a scene-description module (118), a face-recognition module (120) matching against stored embeddings of registered persons (130), an intent-to-action module (122) using a dataset of utterance, intent and target records (132) to operate the mobile device, or a crossing-assistance module (124) that classifies the pedestrian signal and detects vehicles. The camera of the mobile device supplies frames to the vision modules. A response normaliser (126)convertsevery resultinto concise speech, or into astatement that the operation could not be completed, which a text-to-speech unit (128) plays to the user.
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