GB2016276A

GB2016276A – Sensory system
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GB2016276A – Sensory system
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Sensory system

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GB2016276A

GB2016276A
GB7913631A
GB7913631A
GB2016276A
GB 2016276 A
GB2016276 A
GB 2016276A
GB 7913631 A
GB7913631 A
GB 7913631A
GB 7913631 A
GB7913631 A
GB 7913631A
GB 2016276 A
GB2016276 A
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store
electrodes
sequence
read
signals
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1978-01-21
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ROSS FOUNDATION FOR RESEARCH I

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1978-01-21
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1979-04-19
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1979-09-26

1979-04-19
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1979-04-19
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1979-09-26
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patent/GB2016276A/en

1982-02-10
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1982-02-10
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A—HUMAN NECESSITIES

A61—MEDICAL OR VETERINARY SCIENCE; HYGIENE

A61F—FILTERS IMPLANTABLE INTO BLOOD VESSELS; PROSTHESES; DEVICES PROVIDING PATENCY TO, OR PREVENTING COLLAPSING OF, TUBULAR STRUCTURES OF THE BODY, e.g. STENTS; ORTHOPAEDIC, NURSING OR CONTRACEPTIVE DEVICES; FOMENTATION; TREATMENT OR PROTECTION OF EYES OR EARS; BANDAGES, DRESSINGS OR ABSORBENT PADS; FIRST-AID KITS

A61F9/00—Methods or devices for treatment of the eyes; Devices for putting-in contact lenses; Devices to correct squinting; Apparatus to guide the blind; Protective devices for the eyes, carried on the body or in the hand

A61F9/08—Devices or methods enabling eye-patients to replace direct visual perception by another kind of perception

A—HUMAN NECESSITIES

A61—MEDICAL OR VETERINARY SCIENCE; HYGIENE

A61F—FILTERS IMPLANTABLE INTO BLOOD VESSELS; PROSTHESES; DEVICES PROVIDING PATENCY TO, OR PREVENTING COLLAPSING OF, TUBULAR STRUCTURES OF THE BODY, e.g. STENTS; ORTHOPAEDIC, NURSING OR CONTRACEPTIVE DEVICES; FOMENTATION; TREATMENT OR PROTECTION OF EYES OR EARS; BANDAGES, DRESSINGS OR ABSORBENT PADS; FIRST-AID KITS

A61F11/00—Methods or devices for treatment of the ears or hearing sense; Non-electric hearing aids; Methods or devices for enabling ear patients to achieve auditory perception through physiological senses other than hearing sense; Protective devices for the ears, carried on the body or in the hand

A61F11/04—Methods or devices for enabling ear patients to achieve auditory perception through physiological senses other than hearing sense, e.g. through the touch sense

A—HUMAN NECESSITIES

A61—MEDICAL OR VETERINARY SCIENCE; HYGIENE

A61N—ELECTROTHERAPY; MAGNETOTHERAPY; RADIATION THERAPY; ULTRASOUND THERAPY

A61N1/00—Electrotherapy; Circuits therefor

A61N1/18—Applying electric currents by contact electrodes

A61N1/32—Applying electric currents by contact electrodes alternating or intermittent currents

A61N1/36—Applying electric currents by contact electrodes alternating or intermittent currents for stimulation

A61N1/36046—Applying electric currents by contact electrodes alternating or intermittent currents for stimulation of the eye

Abstract

A prosthetic visual or aural sensing system has light or sound sensing means 10 providing a sequence of electrical signals, a store 18 to store the signals, read means 17, 19, 20, 21 for reading out the stored information in a sequence which differs from the write sequence, and an implant including electrodes 37 contacting the brain cortex and means to stimulate electrodes 37 sequentially in dependence on the signals read from store 18. The read/write sequence difference is provided by a PROM 21 controlling the write or read address sequence of store 18 and allows non-critical positioning of electrodes 37 since it can be programmed to stimulate the most appropriate electrodes so that a coherent picture is produced. Sensor 10 and electrodes 37 may each comprise a matrix of from 256 to 5000 elements. Data signals, power, and clock pulses may be coupled to the implant inductively. Sensing means 10 may be provided by a hand camera or built into spectacles or implanted. The video data fed to store 18 may define only black or white levels, or also intermediate grey levels.

GB7913631A
1978-01-21
1979-04-19
Sensory system

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EP0054418A2
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*

1980-12-12
1982-06-23
The Commonwealth Of Australia
Improvements in speech processors

EP0029048B1
(en)

*

1979-05-28
1985-05-29
The University Of Melbourne
Speech processor

US4551149A
(en)

*

1982-02-16
1985-11-05
Michael Sciarra
Prosthetic vision system

US4628933A
(en)

*

1985-07-23
1986-12-16
Michelson Robin P
Method and apparatus for visual prosthesis

EP0206463A3
(en)

*

1985-06-11
1987-03-18
Biolectron, Inc.
High-frequency sound generating apparatus

EP0425575A1
(en)

*

1988-07-22
1991-05-08
THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA as represented by the Secretary United States Department of Commerce
Apparatus and method for transmitting prosthetic information to the brain

BE1003022A3
(en)

*

1989-03-23
1991-10-29
Univ Louvain
System for restoring sight using the auditory canal

US5109844A
(en)

*

1990-10-11
1992-05-05
Duke University
Retinal microstimulation

US5159927A
(en)

*

1989-07-26
1992-11-03
Ferdinand Schmid
Visual prosthesis apparatus and method

WO1996028951A1
(en)

*

1995-03-09
1996-09-19
Cochlear Limited
Implant device with electrostatic discharge protection

EP0743051A2
(en)

*

1995-04-26
1996-11-20
Hiroshi Yamamoto
Apparatus and method for providing an image output to optic nerves

WO1996039221A1
(en)

*

1995-06-06
1996-12-12
Vincent Chow
Multi-phasic microphotodiode retinal implant and adaptive imaging retinal stimulation system

US5935155A
(en)

*

1998-03-13
1999-08-10
John Hopkins University, School Of Medicine
Visual prosthesis and method of using same

WO2002089912A3
(en)

*

2001-05-03
2003-07-10
Univ Louvain
Vision rehabilitation method and device

US6658299B1
(en)

2000-01-04
2003-12-02
William H. Dobelle
Artificial system for vision and the like

US7027874B1
(en)

2000-11-16
2006-04-11
Polyvalor S.E.C.
Body electronic implant and artificial vision system thereof

1979

1979-04-19
GB
GB7913631A
patent/GB2016276B/en
not_active
Expired

Cited By (22)

* Cited by examiner, † Cited by third party

Publication number
Priority date
Publication date
Assignee
Title

EP0029048B1
(en)

*

1979-05-28
1985-05-29
The University Of Melbourne
Speech processor

EP0054418A2
(en)

*

1980-12-12
1982-06-23
The Commonwealth Of Australia
Improvements in speech processors

EP0054418A3
(en)

*

1980-12-12
1982-08-11
The Commonwealth Of Australia
Improvements in speech processors

US4551149A
(en)

*

1982-02-16
1985-11-05
Michael Sciarra
Prosthetic vision system

EP0206463A3
(en)

*

1985-06-11
1987-03-18
Biolectron, Inc.
High-frequency sound generating apparatus

US4628933A
(en)

*

1985-07-23
1986-12-16
Michelson Robin P
Method and apparatus for visual prosthesis

EP0425575A4
(en)

*

1988-07-22
1993-01-07
Us Commerce
Apparatus and method for transmitting prosthetic information to the brain

EP0425575A1
(en)

*

1988-07-22
1991-05-08
THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA as represented by the Secretary United States Department of Commerce
Apparatus and method for transmitting prosthetic information to the brain

BE1003022A3
(en)

*

1989-03-23
1991-10-29
Univ Louvain
System for restoring sight using the auditory canal

US5159927A
(en)

*

1989-07-26
1992-11-03
Ferdinand Schmid
Visual prosthesis apparatus and method

US5109844A
(en)

*

1990-10-11
1992-05-05
Duke University
Retinal microstimulation

WO1996028951A1
(en)

*

1995-03-09
1996-09-19
Cochlear Limited
Implant device with electrostatic discharge protection

US5674263A
(en)

*

1995-04-26
1997-10-07
Yamamoto; Hiroshi
Optic nerve image output device and method

EP0743051A2
(en)

*

1995-04-26
1996-11-20
Hiroshi Yamamoto
Apparatus and method for providing an image output to optic nerves

EP0743051A3
(en)

*

1995-04-26
1997-03-12
Hiroshi Yamamoto
Apparatus and method for providing an image output to optic nerves

WO1996039221A1
(en)

*

1995-06-06
1996-12-12
Vincent Chow
Multi-phasic microphotodiode retinal implant and adaptive imaging retinal stimulation system

EP1435255A3
(en)

*

1995-06-06
2004-08-18
Alan Y. Chow
Multi-phasic microphotodiode retinal implant and adaptive imaging retinal stimulation system

US7139612B2
(en)

1995-06-06
2006-11-21
Optobionics Corporation
Multi-phasic microphotodiode retinal implant and adaptive imaging retinal stimulation system

US5935155A
(en)

*

1998-03-13
1999-08-10
John Hopkins University, School Of Medicine
Visual prosthesis and method of using same

US6658299B1
(en)

2000-01-04
2003-12-02
William H. Dobelle
Artificial system for vision and the like

US7027874B1
(en)

2000-11-16
2006-04-11
Polyvalor S.E.C.
Body electronic implant and artificial vision system thereof

WO2002089912A3
(en)

*

2001-05-03
2003-07-10
Univ Louvain
Vision rehabilitation method and device

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1983-12-07
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Patent ceased through non-payment of renewal fee

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