Adaptive visual assistive device

A visual assistive device, comprising:

• a detection apparatus configured to receive information about an environment surrounding a user of the visual assistive device;
• a communication apparatus configured to transmit information to the user;
• and
• an electronic processor coupled to the detection apparatus and the communication apparatus, and configured to:
• obtain information about an activity of the user, wherein the information comprises at least one of a verbal or non-verbal command issued by the user and received by the electronic processor, an audio signal received by the electronic processor, a gesture of the user, and a position of the user;
• filter the information about the environment surrounding the user based on the activity of the user to generate multiple elements of filtered information corresponding to a subset of the information about the environment surrounding the user;
• assign a priority rank to each element of the filtered information based on the activity of the user;
• and
• order the elements of the filtered information according to the corresponding priority ranks and transmit the ordered, filtered information to the user using the communication apparatus.