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Compensating visual impairment by using an eye-mounted display

  • US 10,459,255 B2
  • Filed: 02/01/2018
  • Issued: 10/29/2019
  • Est. Priority Date: 02/01/2018
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method for enhancing vision of a user with visual impairment, the method comprising:

  • capturing images of a user'"'"'s unimpaired view of a surrounding environment;

    modifying the captured images to create compensated images, the modification compensating for the user'"'"'s visual impairment; and

    projecting, by an eye-mounted display, the compensated images onto the user'"'"'s retina;

    where the visual impairment is that a portion of the user'"'"'s unimpaired view would be imaged by the user'"'"'s eye to a damaged section of the user'"'"'s retina, and the eye-mounted display projects the compensated images away from the damaged section of the user'"'"'s retina.

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