Kodak Technology Interest Areas |
Display Technologies
Digital displays play an increasingly important role in a consumer product experience. Kodak is seeking novel color displays that differentiate our consumer products by providing rich display interaction, reduced power consumption, enhanced daylight readability and low cost.
Personal Media Use
Given the vast amount of digital media in personal collections, Kodak is interested in embedded solutions for content labeling, cataloging, ranking and transmitting to enable easy search, retrieval and sharing of personal media.
Personal Media Quality
Digital algorithms are rapidly improving images and videos in our consumer products. Kodak is interested in methods of improving images, video and stills from video with efficient embedded algorithms to correct for low light and to extend the dynamic range.
Sharing and Making Stories
Personal media has long brought people together to share and relive memories. Kodak is looking for easy methods to bring to the forefront the best personal media in still images, video clips and stills from video clips to produce entertaining stories and experiences automatically.
Microfluidic Processes for Printing Applications
Kodak has developed continuous ink jet technology with broad application in the commercial print space. Drop-on-demand inkjet technology is used successfully by consumers for home printing applications. Both technologies exploit microfluidic techniques for directing small quantities of materials through an array of nozzles to create patterned output. Of interest to Kodak are advances - printhead materials and architectures, micropump and microfiltration technologies, and materials and processes to effect rapid ink/paper drying performance.
Business Solutions
Information management processes are reacting to an upsurge in digital information from the use of personalized data in custom printed output and from widespread use of scanners to convert document repositories. Kodak is seeking software solutions that will simplify the creation and handling of variable information at commercial printers using digital print systems. Separately, we are interested in distributed scanning applications that provide higher value business solutions.
Ink & Related Technologies
Commercial and consumer users of digital print engines continue to demand new ink technologies to support new applications for differentiable products. Kodak’s interest in nanotechnology is focused on stable colloidal systems where nanoparticulates resist aggregation and maintain stability for long periods of time. Kodak seeks technologies to enable printing on non-porous surfaces and the application of functional inks to printing and deposition processes.
Intelligent Materials
Intelligent materials can adapt to their environment or can adjust their properties in a controlled manner to address specific functions. Kodak is interested in materials that exhibit hydrophobic-hydrophilic switching, or that perform molecular self-assembly to construct useful structures for printing processes or electronic applications. Of interest is the means to form micro-porous structures or barrier layers. Kodak is also interested in overt and covert materials and related technologies to provide brand owners with security solutions to protect their goods from counterfeit products.
Storage and Networking
Commercial content is making a shift from analog to digital. Commercial content has fairly different properties from consumer or user generated content. This difference, namely much larger file sizes, fewer retrievals but greater distribution and security, Given the accelerating growth of commercial digital content, the ability to economically, efficiently and securely store and transfer such content is very important. Kodak is interested in technology (software and hardware) that can substantially reduce the cost per bit of storage and transmission, securely.
Conversion, Management and Delivery of Content
As the number of diverse consumption devices and libraries of digital content grow, the ability to manage, convert and deliver the content for appropriate consumption will become increasingly valuable. Kodak is interested in technologies that will allow for high end analog to digital scanning, various format (codec and screen size) conversion technologies and delivery mechanisms for the content. Kodak is also very interested in technology that simplifies the storage, tagging, cataloging and retrieval of digital content.