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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 27, 2016
Filed:
Aug. 12, 2015
Applicant:
Second Sight Medical Products, Inc., San Fernando, CA (US);
Inventors:
Robert Greenberg, Los Angeles, CA (US);
Avraham Caspi, Rehovot, IL;
Francesco Merlini, Lausanne, CH;
Arup Roy, Valencia, CA (US);
Assignee:
Second Sight Medical Products, Inc., Sylmar, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61N 1/36 (2006.01); G06K 9/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61N 1/36046 (2013.01); G06K 9/00228 (2013.01);
Abstract
The present invention is generally directed to visual neural stimulation and more specifically to improved usability of a visual prosthesis, and a visual prosthesis structure easily adaptable to the eye or the brain. They system includes a pattern recognition component, and zoom component combined with an indication component for indicating the location of the pattern, such as a face, in a zoomed out image.