MUMBAI, India, Oct. 26 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202611113794 A) filed by Chandigarh University on September 23, 2026, for Edge-Computing Device For Real-Time Facial Emotion Recognition And Temporal Sentiment Visualization.
Inventors include Poonam Kukana; Lakshya; Sagar Chandel; Sahil Thakur; Rachit Kaushal; and Mohammad Yasir Malik.
The application for the patent was published on October 23, 2026, under issue no. 43/2026.
Abstract: The invention relates to an embedded edge-computing device for facial image and video processing. The device comprises a stationary housing, a 5 megapixel camera (101), a Raspberry Pi Zero 2W embedded processing unit (102), a USB-C direct power interface (103), a local database (104), and a status interface (105). The processing unit (102) receives facial video locally, converts an input stream to a fixed 12 frames per second analysis rate, verifies user presence, and executes a local quantized convolutional neural network to extract facial landmarks and classify emotional states. A temporal analysis module (109) counts frames associated with respective emotional states, excludes frames without user presence, and converts frame counts into corresponding durations. The resulting status data is stored locally and visualized through the status interface (105) as temporal emotional-status information. The arrangement supports persistent local operation without transmitting raw facial video to an external processing server.
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