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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Apr. 12, 2022

Filed:

Dec. 07, 2017
Applicants:

Second Sight Medical Products, Inc., Sylmar, CA (US);

Advanced Medical Electronics Corporation, Maple Grove, MN (US);

The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD (US);

Inventors:

Arup Roy, Valencia, CA (US);

Avraham I. Caspi, Rehovot, IL;

Gislin Dagnelie, Baltimore, MD (US);

Greg Seifert, St Paul, MN (US);

Paul Gibson, Loretto, MN (US);

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61F 9/08 (2006.01); A61N 1/36 (2006.01); A61F 9/00 (2006.01); G06K 9/00 (2022.01); A61F 2/16 (2006.01); A61F 9/02 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61F 9/08 (2013.01); A61F 9/0017 (2013.01); A61N 1/36046 (2013.01); G06K 9/00671 (2013.01); A61F 2/1624 (2013.01); A61F 9/022 (2013.01); A61F 2250/0002 (2013.01);
Abstract

The present invention is a depth sensing visual prosthesis. By depth sensing objects within an image, items located at a certain depths from the user can be removed to declutter an image. The resulting image presents only objects within a range of depth from the visual prosthesis user. Depth sensing can be accomplished in various ways including structured light, time of flight, or preferably, a stereo camera pair.


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