"Electronic eye" a new opportunity for the blind

 

The electronic eye, will allow for people who are blind because of the disease retinitis pigmentosa to sight again, according to UH hospital and that will be one of 12 Medical Center will provide this new technology developed by company Second Sight.

And will provide electronic eye named Argus II to reshape the landscape of the patient in a matrix consisting of about 60 pixels come in colors (white-black-grey).

The main mechanism of action Argus II with a camera installed on special glasses worn by the patient, so the camera captures the scene and move it to the video processing unit carried by the patient and that its role in addressing scene video and convert it to a set of electrical signals that are sent wirelessly to the patient, where the glasses are moved wirelessly to chip planted in the patient's eye, where you receive the signal by a special antenna and transmitted to an array of electrodes that stimulate the cells in the retina Visual Into the patient, which will transfer the electrical signal to the patient's optic nerve, allowing him to see the scene front of him in the form of an array of bright and dark elements that will change depending on the lighting of the scene. This is according to the manufacturer's website.

The patient can use the electronic eye to note the existence of objects in front of it, in addition to whether animated or static objects. The company developed for the electronic eye on the development of future generations of the eye to be able to get more information and colour.