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Artificial Vision 2015

The International Symposium on Visual Prosthetics

27.11. - 28.11.2015, Aachen

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Real Time Fully Wireless Implantable Optogenetics Visual Cortical Stimulator

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  • Nabeel A. Fattah - Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
  • W. Al-Atabany - Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
  • D. Sokolov - Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
  • G. Chester - Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
  • P. Degenaar - Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK

Artificial Vision 2015. Aachen, 27.-28.11.2015. Düsseldorf: German Medical Science GMS Publishing House; 2016. Doc15artvis32

doi: 10.3205/15artvis32, urn:nbn:de:0183-15artvis328

Published: March 7, 2016

© 2016 Fattah et al.
This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License. See license information at http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.

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Number of population are continuously increasing and also the number of people who visual disability. There are different approach for restoring sight but there is not any of them can treat all the kind of blindness. The fully wireless implantable optogenetics stimulator will hopefully can resolve all cases of blindness’s issues. The challenging and novelty in this work are transferring 25 frame per second in life streaming video. However, frame size was 46X46 pixels was captured by the camera and transferred wirelessly via Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE). The Image simplification are applied on each individual frames (Image Cartoonization and Edge enhancement) on the transmitter side. Raspberry pi model 2 was used for this purpose for handling the image processing and transferring it via the BLE with the date rate 160 kbps. In the receiver side a personal computer was used in this stage for receiving images data and restoring it to scene. Matlab Simulink were used in both sides for image processing. In the end side the images will be used for operating the implanted uLED’s when it was developed by our team.