News tagged with color vision
Chickens 'one-up' humans in ability to see color
(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have peered deep into the eye of the chicken and found a masterpiece of biological design.
Feb 16, 2010 |
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Seeing color traced back to genetic mutations
From the inside of our heads, it feels as if colors are intrinsic aspects of the outside world and our eyes are beautifully designed to see them. But we humans are merely sampling the possible ways of sensing the spectrum ...
May 21, 2012 |
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Microbial protein restores vision in blind animals
(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists from the Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research (FMI) restore vision in retinitis pigmentosa using an archaebacterial protein. Introducing halorhodopsin into the remaining ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Jul 14, 2010 |
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Sharp Develops Five-Primary-Color LCD That Faithfully Reproduces Real Surface Colors
Sharp Corporation has developed a five-primary-color display that faithfully reproduces the real surface colors that humans are capable of perceiving. A prototype of this display will be exhibited at the international symposium ...
May 29, 2009 |
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Scientists shed new light on how retina's hardware is used in color vision
Biologists at New York University and the University of Wurzburg have identified, in greater detail, how the retina's cellular hardware is used in color preference. The findings, published in the latest issue of the Proceedings of ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Mar 08, 2010 |
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NHK shows downsized Super Hi-Vision video camera
(Phys.org) -- NHK this week placed on exhibit a shoulder-mount camera, developed in cooperation with Hitachi, capable of shooting what NHK calls super high vision (SHV) video in 7680×4320 resolution. ...
May 28, 2012 |
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Seeing through the eyes of the colorblind
Toyohashi Tech researcher receives coveted Japanese government award for the invention of unique color filter–glasses. Allowing those with normal color vision to experience colorblindness, the glasses ...
May 20, 2011 |
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