Reading speed with a pixelized vision system Article

Cha, K, Horch, KW, Normann, RA et al. (1992). Reading speed with a pixelized vision system . JOURNAL OF THE OPTICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA A-OPTICS IMAGE SCIENCE AND VISION, 9(5), 673-677. 10.1364/JOSAA.9.000673

cited authors

  • Cha, K; Horch, KW; Normann, RA; Boman, DK

authors

abstract

  • A visual prosthesis based on electrical stimulation of the visual cortex with an array of penetrating electrodes is expected to produce pixelized visual images consisting of punctate spots of light (phosphenes). We measured reading speed in subjects viewing text with optically simulated phosphene fields in order to obtain estimates of the following design parameters for such an electrode array: Pixel number, pixel spacing, and visual-field size. Comparisons were made between scanning the text with eye movements and scanning the text with head movements. The results indicate that a 25 X 25 array of pixels representing four letters of text projected on a foveal visual field of 1.7° is sufficient to provide reading rates near 170 words/min with scrolled text and near 100 words/min with fixed text. © 1992 Optical Society of America.

publication date

  • January 1, 1992

published in

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

start page

  • 673

end page

  • 677

volume

  • 9

issue

  • 5