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Company
Profile
Kodak's Austin Development Center's mission is to apply
our unique digital imaging technologies to
advance the ability of people to communicate
with images. Our
strategy is to incorporate our imaging
technologies into Kodak products and software
and license the technology
to original equipment manufacturers (OEMs). We
will also strive to adapt our technologies to
serve the consumer photoimaging mass market by
developing image correction and enhancement
software utilities that can be used in consumer
imaging applications.
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Our business is comprised of two distinct yet complementary
technology suites. The first started back in the mid 90's when Nikon
made available, the first film scanner to incorporate our
revolutionary patented DIGITAL ICE Technology to automatically
remove dust, scratches, and other defects while scanning film
negatives and positives. Since that time, DIGITAL ICE Technology has
become an industry standard for film scanner defect removal and it
can be found on many brands and models. In the early 2000's, DIGITAL
ICE Technology was adapted for use in digital minilabs from Noritsu,
Konica, AGFA, Gretag, Kodak, and others. A new version of the
technology, called DIGITAL ICE Photo Print Technology, has now been
applied to flatbed scanners from Epson and Microtek to automatically
remove surface defects like scratches, cracks, rips, and dust from
photographic prints during the scanning process. The technology
continues to evolve and combines other patented image correction and
enhancement technologies like DIGITAL ROC Technology for color
correction/restoration, DIGITAL GEM Technology for grain/noise
removal, and DIGITAL SHO Technology for shadow/highlight
optimization. These combined technology suites are called DIGITAL
ICE3
Technology (cubed) and DIGITAL ICE4 Technology (quad).
The second technology family consists of software-based,
automatic image correction and enhancement applications made
available to the end user as PHOTOSHOP compatible plugins.
These affordable and effective plugin products now provide many of
the same features and benefits from the film scanner technologies
for easy personal computer use. The plugin products include DIGITAL
ROC Plug-Ins, DIGITAL GEM Plug-Ins, DIGITAL SHO Plug-Ins, and
DIGITAL GEM Airbrush Professional Plug-In which automatically
smoothes and beautifies skin surfaces. All the plugin
products are sold directly to consumers from this website via
internet download with backup plugin CDs also available.
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