Sentences with phrase «into electrical signals»

Once they have reached their destination, however, these optical signals have to be converted into electrical signals for subsequent processing in the computer.

Researchers have identified a molecule that can transform the mechanical stimulus of a sound wave into an electrical signal recognizable by the brain.

Alternatively, for a sensor or solar cell, some fraction of light will never make it to the detector to be collected and turned into an electrical signal.

The inner ear is lined with approximately 30,000 sensitive hair cells that convert sound energy into electrical signals that travel to the brain.

In a similar way that we convert today's optical signals into electrical signals, quantum signals may need to translate their formats into something that's easier to process too.

For enhancing the efficiency of light absorption and light conversion into electrical signals, charge carriers are generated at a titanium - silicon transition and taken up at another gold - silicon transition.

The photoreceptors in the retina, at the back of the eyes, are the primary light sensitive cells that allow us to see: they convert light into electrical signals.

«This is a big step in determining the identity of key components of the molecular machinery that converts sound waves into electrical signals in the inner ear,» said the study's co-senior author, Gregory Frolenkov, of the Department of Physiology at the University of Kentucky.

In previous studies, the group has demonstrated that these nanotubes have piezoelectric effects that is, they convert mechanical forces into electrical signals and could be used as sensors for pacemakers or other small - scale electronic devices.

Some cells in the cochlear have the same kind of gradient, which is used to convert the mechanical force of the vibrating eardrum into electrical signals that the brain can understand.

Each successive lens was slightly closer to the center of the disk so that each lens captured 1 / 30th of the image in a thin vertical stripe, which was turned into electrical signals by a photocell.

Some of the medications aim to restore the small hair cells in the inner ear, which convert sound vibrations into electrical signals that travel to the brain by way of the auditory nerve.

At the other end a receiver reverses the process and turns each light pulse into an electrical signal and reconstructs the information.

The receiver converts radio waves collected by the antennas into electrical signals for computer processing.

Translation of biological event into an electrical signal by immunosensory receptors reflects the beauty of science in a very fascinating scene.

In mammals, proteins called ion channels embedded in the cell membrane translate temperature information into electrical signals that activate nerve cells.

The first step is to create an «adapter cord» that can translate the body's nerve impulses into electrical signals that can be processed by the prosthetics.

Along with the fibers, they translate our physical interactions with the world into electrical signals that our brain can process.

They are then converted into electrical signals within the inner ear and transmitted to the brain by the auditory nerve.

The inner ear turns sound waves into electrical signals inside the organ of Corti, which is lined with rows of 15,000 to 20,000 hairlike cells.

The performance of biosensors, analytical devices that converts biological responses into electrical signals, can be improved by including nanoparticles as detection reagents.

The e-skin converted his words into electrical signals, and then sent them to a machine.

Going one step farther, McLean was able to find a photograph of Ms. Pounsford and compare it with the newly revealed imagery from 20 years earlier Baird's technique of scanning an image into discrete lines, and turning those lines into electrical signals would prove to be the basis of the better looking images television would later offer.

In ALMA, the observed radio waves are divided into 10 frequency bands and then converted into electrical signals.

Standard x-ray systems have one detector containing individual elements called diodes, which convert the level of detected x-ray energy into an electrical signal that's sent back to the machine's on - board computer.

The retina sits at the back of the human eye, and contains protein cells that convert light into electrical signals that travel through the nervous system, triggering a response from the brain, ultimately building a picture of the scene being viewed.

The auditory system collects sounds and transforms their mechanical forces into an electrical signal that functions throughout our lifetime.

Hair cells in the cochlea use this gradient to convert the mechanical force of the vibrating eardrum into electrical signals that the brain can understand.

If you choose fiber, you'll get an optical network terminal (ONT) to translate the fiber - optic light signals into electrical signals that your devices can recognize, and maybe another modem - like device to translate from the ONT.

Although the basic outlines of human hearing have been known for years — sensory cells in the inner ear turn sound waves into the electrical signals that the brain understands as sound — the molecular details have remained elusive.

Colorado - based Cochlear's processors gather sound from the environment, turning it into an electrical signal and send it to an electrode implanted in the ears of people with hearing loss.

In most vertebrates and some mollusks, the eye works by allowing light to enter it and project onto a light - sensitive panel of cells known as the retina at the rear of the eye, where the light is detected and converted into electrical signals.

Retinal tissue contains light - sensitive cells that absorb wavelengths in the visible spectrum and convert them into electrical signals.

The inner ear comprises the hearing organ or cochlea, together with the five balance organs (the saccule, utricle and three semicircular canals), which contain the sensory cells, or hair cells, that detect mechanical vibrations and convert them into electrical signals.

Rather than tapping the optical signal, though, Payne says it would be easier to wait until the equipment converts it into an electrical signal that computers can read before patching in.

It acts like a camera to collect and focus light and convert it into an electrical signal that the brain translates into images.

When light enters the retina, photoreceptor cells translate it into electrical signals.

Instead, they translate sound into electrical signals that are used to electrically stimulate the cochlea — a spiral - shaped part of the inner ear attached to the auditory nerve.

They chose TMC1 because it is a common cause of genetic deafness, accounting for 4 to 8 percent of cases, and encodes a protein that plays a central role in hearing, helping convert sound into electrical signals that travel to the brain.

A photomultiplier then translates this into electrical signals.

Special software is able to decode his thoughts and convert them into electrical signals in his hand, bypassing the damaged nerves in his spine.

Some of the cells in this layer (the photoreceptors) convert light into an electrical signal that is then amplified and processed by other cells before being sent to the brain via the optic nerve.

The cochlea has the all - important job of transforming mechanical energy in the form of sound waves into electrical signals that run along auditory nerves to the brain.

Probing further, the authors of the study also revealed that Aipl1 is critical for the stability of two enzymes — the cGMP - phosphodiesterase 6 and the guanylate cyclase — which mediate phototransduction, the process of converting light into an electrical signal.

Next, the researchers determined that the engineered cells responded to sound waves and turned them into electrical signals.

Probing further, the authors of the study also revealed that Aipl1 is critical for the stability of two enzymes — the cGMP - phosphodiesterase 6 and the guanylate cyclase - which mediate phototransduction, the process of converting light into an electrical signal.

The hydrophones, which detect pressure waves and convert them into electrical signals, provide less information than the seismometers, which register ground motion, but they can be tethered four miles deep in the water column where the bottom is so far down seismometers would implode as they sank.

Thermoelectric materials can convert heat energy into an electrical signal or use electrical energy to cool a material.

The photoreceptors convert light into an electrical signal that travels along a complex network as a pattern of «firing» cells.