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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 09, 2015
Filed:
Mar. 14, 2014
Applicant:
Second Sight Medical Products, Inc., San Fernando, CA (US);
Inventors:
Robert J Greenberg, Los Angeles, CA (US);
Arup Roy, Santa Clarita, CA (US);
Avraham I Caspi, Rehovot, IL;
Matthew J McMahon, Washington, DC (US);
Assignee:
Second Sight Medical Products, Inc., Sylmar, CA (US);
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61N 1/18 (2006.01); A61N 1/36 (2006.01); A61B 3/10 (2006.01); A61B 5/00 (2006.01); A61N 1/05 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61N 1/36046 (2013.01); A61N 1/0543 (2013.01); A61B 3/1005 (2013.01); A61B 5/4836 (2013.01);
Abstract
A visual prosthesis apparatus including a video capture device for capturing a video image, a video processing unit associated with the video capture device, the video processing unit configured to convert the video image to stimulation patterns, and a stimulation system configured to stimulate subject's neural tissue based on the stimulation patterns, wherein the stimulation system provides a span of visual angle matched to the subject's neural tissue being stimulated.