Respectfully, unless I'm not understanding what you mean by this, that seems very far from object recognition. You're replicating the data stream that would normally be coming from the optic nerve/retina, but that's not the same thing as understanding how the data of an object's image relates recognition of that object. If I've never seen the entire Mona Lisa before (but maybe have seen portions of it), your proposed system could force me to see the painting but it can't force me to recognize it as something I have seen, nor force me to know that it is a famous painting by Leonardo da Vinci currently on display at the Louvre.
I don't think you are understanding. But Bio isn't meant to be easy.
At each synapse a significant amount of data processing occurs, right from the rod and cone cells in the retina and at nearly each synapse along the way. 'Data' is more-ish conserved into V1 where all hell seems to break loose, path-wise. After V1 and in nearly the entire cortex, these data are distributed in unique and very complicated ways throughout the brain. Most of the mammalian eye-V1 pathway is well understood, but that process is too much for a comment on HN. But, I want to stress, we have a very very good idea of what is going on.
That said, the research seems to indicate (highly debated still) that there are specific synapses that encode 'the left side of grandma's nose in dim lighting from 10 feet away' and other many other things. Again, I cannot stress enough that such 'grandma' synapses are not firm science and there is a LOT of research still ongoing. But the evidence seems to be pointing that way at this time. Such cells are fed this information from V1 and, likely, a lot of other places. When such 'grandma' cells fire, they then send that signal out to other cells they may be connected to. Such a system is likely replicated many times all over the brain; there are many copies of 'grandma' cells and they are wired up in many different ways. The physical location of 'grandma' cells in highly unique, if they exist at all. Again, research is very much on-going.
