MUMBAI, India, July 7 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202641078786 A) filed by Vellore Institute Of Technology on June 25, 2026, for A System And Method For Wearable Assistive Contact Recognition And Context-Aware Emergency Communication.

Inventors include Kalaivani S; Sangeetha V; and Vishva S A.

The application for the patent was published on July 03, 2026, under issue no. 27/2026.

Abstract: The present disclosure proposes a system (100) configured to acquire contact information, generate session-aware interaction memory, facilitate contextual user interaction, and provide context-aware emergency communication assistance for visually impaired users, thereby improving contact accessibility, contextual information retrieval, autonomous user assistance, and emergency-response effectiveness. The system (100) comprises a wearable device (102) having a processor (104), a memory (106), an image acquisition module (108), an audio output module (110), a communication interface (112), and a power management module (113), wherein the processor (104) executes a plurality of modules (115) comprising a contact acquisition module (116), an image preprocessing module (118), an acquisition quality evaluation module (120), a contact-information generation module (122), a phonetic presentation module (124), a session memory generation module (126), a contextual retrieval module (128), and an emergency communication module (130).

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