PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a visual restoration aiding device that decreases the burden of a patient, and can suitably perform the visual restoration.SOLUTION: The visual restoration aiding device, in which an electric stimulation pulse is output from two or more electrodes of a stimulation section to stimulate a retina to make a patient recognize a subject image captured by an image photographing section includes: an image processing section that binarizes a pixel composing the subject image obtained at the image photographing section into a high radiance value pixel and a low radiance value pixel at a prescribed threshold value to generate an image data, and generates an electric stimulation pulse data that specify the output condition of an electric stimulation pulse signal and an electrode causing an electric stimulation pulse signal to be output based on image data and an electrode array and selecting means that selects a first stimulus mode causing an electric stimulation pulse signal to be output based on a high radiance value pixel and a second stimulus mode causing an electric stimulation pulse signal to be output based on a low radiance value pixel, wherein the image processing section generates electric stimulation pulse data based on the stimulus mode selected by the selecting means.COPYRIGHT: (C)2012,JPO&INPIT【課題】 患者の負担を減らし、視覚再生を好適に行える視覚再生補助装置を提供する。【解決手段】刺激部の複数の電極から電気刺激パルスを出力させて網膜を刺激して撮影部で撮影された被写体像を患者に認識させる視覚再生補助装置は、撮影部で得られた被写体画像を構成する画素を所定の閾値で高い輝度値の画素と低い輝度値の画素に2値化して画像データを生成し、画像データと電極の配列に基づき電気刺激パルス信号の出力条件と電気刺激パルス信号を出力させる電極を指定する電気刺激パルス用データを生成する画像処理部と、高い輝度値の画素に基づき電気刺激パルス信号を出力させる第1刺激モードと低い輝度値の画素に基づき電気刺激パルス信号を出力させる第2刺激モードとを選択する選択手段と、を備え、画像処理部は選択手段で選択された刺激モードに基づき電気刺激パルス用データを生成する。【選択図】 図3
