Abstract

According to a recent survey done on the number of visually impaired people in the world, it is found that about 285 million people in the world are blind of which 246 million have low vision and 39 million people in the world are completely blind due to the diseases such as macular degeneration, retinitis pigmentosa and glaucoma. Medical treatments are available to slow down the process of these diseases but there is no complete cure for regaining the lost vision. This paper is about visual prosthesis system where the blind is enabled to see the world virtually.