1. A vision regeneration assisting apparatus for regenerating vision of a patient going blind by a disease of a retina, comprising: a photosensor embedded in the retina of an eye of the patient and for converting an optical signal into an electric signal; photographing means for photographing an object to be recognized by the patient; image processing means for carrying out image processing to extract a feature for an image of the photographed object; irradiating means provided at the front of the eye of the patient and for applying pulse light to the photosensor; and control means for controlling the irradiating means based on image information subjected to the image processing.