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Artificial Retina IC

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Artificial retina or, in general, artificial vision, is a prosthesis device to regain vision for the blind. The similar sensory prosthesis device is an artificial cochlea, which has been successfully developed and widely used in many deaf patients in the worldwide to regain sound. Now in the world, a number of research and development on artificial reina [17] are progressing and commercial products will be produced commercially in the near future.

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Acknowledgments

The part of this research was supported by the Strategic Research Program for Brain Sciences, MEXT, Japan, by the Asahi Glass Foundation, and by a Health and Labour Sciences Research Grant, Japan. I would like to thank late Prof. Yasuo Tano and Porf. Takashi Fujikado of Osaka University, the member of Vision Institute of Nidek Co. Ltd., and Prof. Takashi Tokuda of Nara Institute of Scinece and Technology.

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Ohta, J. (2011). Artificial Retina IC. In: Yoo, HJ., van Hoof, C. (eds) Bio-Medical CMOS ICs. Integrated Circuits and Systems. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-6597-4_14

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