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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 23, 2015
Filed:
Mar. 06, 2008
Robert J. Greenberg, Los Angeles, CA (US);
Alan Matthew Horsager, Los Angeles, CA (US);
Mark S. Humayun, Glendale, CA (US);
Kelly H. Mcclure, Simi Valley, CA (US);
Matthew J. Mcmahon, Los Angeles, CA (US);
Peter Meilstrup, Seattle, WA (US);
Neha Jagdish Parikh, Los Angeles, CA (US);
Arup Roy, Valencia, CA (US);
James D. Weiland, Valencia, CA (US);
Chunhong Zhou, Pasadena, CA (US);
Robert J. Greenberg, Los Angeles, CA (US);
Alan Matthew Horsager, Los Angeles, CA (US);
Mark S. Humayun, Glendale, CA (US);
Kelly H. McClure, Simi Valley, CA (US);
Matthew J. McMahon, Los Angeles, CA (US);
Peter Meilstrup, Seattle, WA (US);
Neha Jagdish Parikh, Los Angeles, CA (US);
Arup Roy, Valencia, CA (US);
James D. Weiland, Valencia, CA (US);
Chunhong Zhou, Pasadena, CA (US);
Second Sight Medical Products, Inc., Sylmar, CA (US);
Abstract
The present invention is a saliency-based apparatus and methods for visual prostheses. A saliency-based component processes video data output by a digital signal processor before the video data are input to the retinal stimulator. In a saliency-based method, an intensity stream is extracted from an input image, feature maps based on the intensity stream are developed, plural most salient regions of the input image are detected and one of the regions is selected as a highest saliency region.