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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 11, 2007
Filed:
Feb. 14, 2002
Jun Ohta, Nara, JP;
Shigeru Nishimura, Chiba, JP;
Kohtaro Idegami, Ishikawa, JP;
Keiichiro Kagawa, Nara, JP;
Jun Ohta, Nara, JP;
Shigeru Nishimura, Chiba, JP;
Kohtaro Idegami, Ishikawa, JP;
Keiichiro Kagawa, Nara, JP;
Nidek Co., Ltd., Aichi, JP;
Abstract
It is an object of the invention to provide a vision regeneration assisting apparatus capable of assisting in vision regeneration without making a system structure complicated. In the invention, a vision regeneration assisting apparatus for regenerating a vision of a patient going blind by a disease of a retina includes a photosensor embedded in the retina of an eye of the patient and converting an optical signal into an electric signal, photographing means for photographing an object to be recognized by the patient, image processing means for carrying out an image processing to extract a feature with respect to an image of the object obtained by the photographing means, pulse light forming means for forming a luminous flux into a pulse light to induce a vision, and irradiating means provided before the eye of the patient and applying the pulse light toward the photosensor so as to be formed as an image processed by the image processing means.