BA 516 - Information Technology Perspectives.
Emerging Technologies in Artificial .
Creating Artificial Vision .Page 4.
3. Predictions For Success Of Artificial Vision Prosthesis .".Page 7.
4. Other Emerging Technologies in Artificial Vision Correction .Page 8.
5. Conclusion .Page 11.
6. Source Credits .Page 13.
The Human Eye:.
The human body is an expansive and complex machine with several interconnected functions, piloted primarily by the brain and energized by the flow of electricity and blood from the heart through a network of arteries and veins. The human body gathers information about the surrounding environment by means of several organs namely the eyes, ears, nose, tongue and nerves which translate sight, sound, smell, taste and touch into usable data for process by the brain. As the human body progressively ages, several of these sensory organs begin to deteriorate. The organs most likely to deteriorate earliest are the eyes. The human eye, much like most of the organs of the human body is extremely intricate and delicate. The eye as a whole processes thousand pieces of visual information each second that are captured on the retina and translated into visual images. The Retina "A thin layer of neutral tissues that lines the back wall inside the eye- has millions of photoreceptors several of which receive light projected from objects and others which interpret this information and transmit it to the brain. When you look at an object, scattered light from the object enters through the cornea. The light is then projected onto the retina and then the retina translates the light into images and the forwards this information to the brain and finally the brain interprets what the object is. The retina is comprised of approximately 126 million cells namely Rods, Cones, and Ganglions. The Rods and Cones act as the photoreceptors- the Rods creating black and white images and the Cones capturing color, details and resolution.
