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Offer Organization: Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, System Name: Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research, Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C), Fund Type: -, Overall Grant Amount: - (direct: 3600000, indirect: 1080000)
The limited range in which the visual system neurons respond is called a receptive field and is composed of an excitation area and a suppression area showing a potential response of different polarity to the light stimulus. In this study, a photosynthetic protein, bacteriorhodopsin was used as it was, spatial filters that mimic only the structure of receptive fields were prepared and applied to analog image processing. The positive and negative polarity reversal differential responses exhibited by the electrochemical cell are replaced with excitation and repression response of the receptive field, and the element is realized by a very simple method of selectively patterning on the opposite transparent electrode and covering with the mask pattern. Using these image processing elements, real-time image feature detection and comparison with an animal 's electrophysiological response were demonstrated.