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Electronic Eye

An artificial electronic eye would involve a tiny camera mounted on eyeglasses that sends visual images and electric signals to an antenna and chip sewn into the back of the eye. Only a less-than-hair-thin flexible array would be implanted in the retina to send signals to the brain's vision center. The most successful prosthetic so far is an external miniature digital camera with an implant that allows basic recognition of brightness, color, and shapes. While not replacing a living eye, steadily advancing complexity of the artificial connection to retinal and brain areas combined with computer science may dramatically improve performance over time.

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Electronic Eye

An artificial electronic eye would involve a tiny camera mounted on eyeglasses that sends visual images and electric signals to an antenna and chip sewn into the back of the eye. Only a less-than-hair-thin flexible array would be implanted in the retina to send signals to the brain's vision center. The most successful prosthetic so far is an external miniature digital camera with an implant that allows basic recognition of brightness, color, and shapes. While not replacing a living eye, steadily advancing complexity of the artificial connection to retinal and brain areas combined with computer science may dramatically improve performance over time.

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A tiny camera mounted on

eyeglass frames would send visual images and patterns of electric signals to an antenna and
electrode chip sewn to the back wall of the eye. Only the less-than-hair-thin, flexible array at the
left end of the device would be implanted in the retina, where nerve cells send signals to the vision
center in the back of the brain.

Main article: visual prosthetic

The most successful function-replacing artificial eye so far is actually an external miniature digital
camera with a remote unidirectionalelectronic interface implanted on the retina, optic nerve, or
other related locations inside the brain. The present state of the art yields only very partial
functionality, such as recognizing levels of brightness, swatches of color, and/or basic geometric
shapes, proving the concept's potential. While the living eye is indeed a camera, it is also much
more than that.

Various researchers have demonstrated that the retina performs strategic image preprocessing
for the brain. The problem of creating a 100% functional artificial electronic eye is even more
complex than what is already obvious. Steadily increasing complexity of the artificial connection
to the retina, optic nerve or related brain areas advances, combined with ongoing advances
in computer science, is expected to dramatically improve the performance of this technology.

For the person whose damaged or diseased living eye retains some function, other options
superior to the electronic eye may be available.

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