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A Breakthrough in Artificial Vision!

New concept of artificial vision – Tactile Vision! Newly patented means of coding and transmitting the signal – Artificial Vision Device!

The Artificial Vision Device, description

The Artificial Vision Device consists of the following three parts:

a camera that receives the picture, a visual information processor that transforms the picture into electrical signals and a skin-attached transmitter.

For the receiver, we used a simple black-and-white camera with a high-focus glass lens at a 90 degree angle.

A personal IBM-compatible computer with special software was used for processing the visual information.

After transforming the picture the signal is directed to the software (created exclusively for this project), where electrical impulses are formed for each of the 1000 electrodes of the skin-attached transmitter.

The skin-attached transmitter consists of 110 sets of 9 electrodes each, attached by flexible belts, going around the subject’s torso. Electrodes were placed at a distance of 8 mm from each other, forming a net. This distance enabled a subject to distinguish between impulses among neighboring electrodes. We are still determining the minimum distance at which the subject will be able to make this distinction.

We should further note that the presence of the “tactile stroboscope” effect enabled us to decrease the amount of electrical transmission required. Each picture is transmitted by the consecutive switching of 50 groups of 20 electrodes with the interval of conveying the impulses being less than 30 milliseconds each. This allowed us to lower the electrical signal applied to a human body to 2% of the amount we began with.

After the initial experiments were performed by a group of engineers (supervised by A. Bryzgalov), a new and wore comfortable method of attaching the transmitter was invented. We will soon add the description.

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