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US 8,620,443 B2Granted
Method and system for providing stimulation inputs to a visual prosthesis implant
AssigneeSecond Sight Medical Products, Inc.
InventorsArup Roy, Robert J. Greenberg
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Abstract
Stimulation inputs are provided to a visual prosthesis implant. The images captured by a video decoder are received and digitized to provide a plurality of video frames; integrity of the video frames is checked, the checked video frames are filtered, and the filtered video frames are converted to stimulation inputs. A similar system is also disclosed.
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A method for providing stimulation inputs to a visual prosthesis implant, comprising:
- a) receiving images captured by a video decoder;
- b) digitizing the images to provide a plurality of video frames;
- c) checking the video frames for errors and generating checked video frames;
- d) filtering the checked video frames using a predetermined spatial map to provide filtered video frames;
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- e) converting the filtered video frames to stimulation inputs suitable to stimulate visual neural tissue to create visual percepts according to a binary filter point for the visual prosthesis implant.
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