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US 8,942,822 B2Granted
Visual apparatus and visual method
AssigneeSony Corporation
InventorAkira Arafune
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Abstract
A visual apparatus includes at least one set of probes and a signal generation unit. The at least one set of probes includes a plurality of probes. The signal generation unit is configured to generate a stimulation pattern signal corresponding to information on color, and to input, to at least a part of an area ranging from a retina to a visual nerve, a plurality of pattern signals as the generated stimulation pattern signal via the plurality of probes in the at least one set of probes.
Claims15
A visual apparatus, comprising:
- an electrode array unit, including probes arranged in sets;
- and
- a signal generation unit, configured
- to generate a stimulation pattern signal corresponding to received data on color, and
- to input a plurality of pattern signals from the stimulation pattern signal, to at least a part of an area ranging from a retina to a visual nerve, through the plurality of probes in at least one of the sets of probes;
- and,
- to adjust the sensitivity of the input by varying the distance between respective sets of the probes.
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A visual apparatus, comprising:
- an electrode array unit, including of probes arranged in sets;
- a signal generation unit, configured to:
- generate a stimulation pattern signal corresponding to received data on color;
- input a plurality of pattern signals from the stimulation pattern signal, to at least a part of an area ranging from a retina to a visual nerve, through the probes in at least one of the sets of probes;
- generate a pair of pattern signals as the plurality of pattern signals;
- and
- output each of the pair of pattern signals from at least two probes in the at least one set of probes;
- and
- wherein the at least two probes are disposed so that one of the pair of pattern signals is input to a center portion of a receptive field of the retina and the other of the pair of pattern signals is input to a peripheral portion of the receptive field of the retina.
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A visual apparatus, comprising:
- an electrode array unit, including of probes arranged in sets;
- a signal generation unit, configured to:
- generate a stimulation pattern signal corresponding to received data on color;
- input a plurality of pattern signals from the stimulation pattern signal, to at least a part of an area ranging from a retina to a visual nerve, through the probes in at least one of the sets of probes;
- and
- a probe array unit including a plurality of sets of probes as the at least one set of probes, the plurality of sets of probes of the probe array unit being provided corresponding to a plurality of receptive fields of the retina;
- and
- wherein the signal generation unit is configured to generate a phase difference between the stimulation pattern signals output from the plurality of sets of probes.
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A method comprising:
- generating a stimulation pattern signal corresponding to received data on color, where the received stimulation pattern signal includes a plurality of pattern signals;
- and
- inputting the plurality of pattern signals, to at least a part of an area ranging from a retina to a visual nerve, through a plurality of probes in at least one sets of probes;
- and
- adjusting the sensitivity of the input by varying the distance between sets of probes.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.