Saliency-based apparatus and methods for visual prostheses

US9061150B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Second Sight Medical Products, Inc. · US

Inventors

• Robert J. Greenberg · Los Angeles, US
• Alan Horsager · Los Angeles, US
• Mark Humayun · Glendale, US
• Kelly H. McClure · Simi Valley, US
• Matthew J. McMahon · Los Angeles, US
• Peter Meilstrup · Seattle, US
• Neha J. Parikh · Calabasas, US
• Arup Roy · Burnaby, CA
• James D. Weiland · Valencia, US
• Chunhong Zhou · Pasadena, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Mar 6, 2008
• Grant date: Jun 23, 2015
• Expiry date: Oct 20, 2031

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G09B21/008
• WIPO field: Medical technology
• WIPO sector: Instruments

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.