Second Sight Medical Products Inc (EYES)

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Image resolution of 32 by 32 pixels is enough to get easily recognizable images. Even 16 X 16 is enough for object resolution. ORION has only 60 pixels which on the surface would imply there are not nearly enough pixels for true bionic vision. However this is really not the whole story. Each pixel has far more image processing data than an individual pixel on your smart phone or TV. This data needs to be "unlocked" through the image processing algorithms. As far as I can decipher the algorithms and corresponding software to implement have not been able to unlock all of the data from a single pixel. I believe EYES currently has approximately 60 pixels or about 8X8 resolution. Not nearly enough for real bionic vision (requires approximately 16X16=256 pixels for true object recognition. With current hardware the image processing will have to make one pixel appear to the patient as 4 thereby increasing the effective resolution of 240 pixels. Voila, true object resolution. Look for the big breakthrough in algorithms, software, hardware and firmware. There is more than enough data for object recognition and it needs to be unlocked. EYES has not yet figured out how to process this data. I am betting they will relatively soon. It's difficult as the patient can't walk around with "Watson" strapped to their back. This is true for Argus II as well.