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Topic: Real D acquires Master Image 3D
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Steve Guttag
We forgot the crackers Gromit!!!
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From: Annapolis, MD
Registered: Dec 1999
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posted 02-24-2017 01:10 PM
https://celluloidjunkie.com/wire/reald-acquires-masterimage-3d-assets-and-technology/
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BEVERLY HILLS, CA (February 23, 2017) – RealD has acquired the remaining assets of MasterImage in a transaction that closed today. Assets acquired by RealD include all intellectual property, technology, inventory, and accounts receivable previously controlled by MasterImage.
The acquisition of these assets follows several key legal victories in which RealD successfully asserted their patents against MasterImage. These victories include a recent court-ordered ban of the infringing products by the US International Trade Commission, and wins against MasterImage in various other jurisdictions around the world.
“RealD remains committed to visual technology innovation and to protecting our intellectual property around the world,” said RealD Founder and CEO Michael V. Lewis.
RealD pioneered digital 3D and has a platform of over 29,000 RealD 3D equipped screens in 72 countries. As the world’s leading 3D cinema system provider with over 570 issued or pending patents, RealD has been more instrumental in perfecting, promoting and providing a premium quality 3D experience than any other company.
RealD has offices in Beverly Hills, Boulder, London, Oxford, Moscow, Shanghai, Beijing, Taipei, Hong Kong, Seoul and Tokyo. For more information, please visit our website at www.reald.com.
About RealD Inc.
Globally recognized as the world’s visual technology leader, RealD pioneered digital 3D cinema and today has the world’s largest 3D cinema platform. RealD’s dominant market share is comprised of a network of theatres that include more than 29,000 installed screens with a backlog of 4,000 additional contracted installations in 72 countries with over 1,200 exhibition partners. RealD is the world’s preeminent 3D brand, with well over 1.5 billion people having experienced a movie in RealD 3D.
RealD has offices in Beverly Hills, Boulder, London, Moscow, Shanghai, Beijing, Hong Kong and Tokyo. For more information, please visit our website at www.reald.com.
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Carsten Kurz
Film God
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From: Cologne, NRW, Germany
Registered: Aug 2009
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posted 02-25-2017 11:31 AM
quote: Steve Kraus
What was Master Image doing that infringed Crappy D? Do they assert ownership over alternate frame 3D?
Aside from their disc based systems, they manufactured and sold two electronic devices (Wave3D and Horizon3D), that directly competed with RealDs Z-Screen and XL systems, especially the competition between Horizon3D and XL was accompanied by patent claims from both companies.
Now, Volfoni and GetD sell similar devices. I have no idea wether the general design of the XL light recycler was the main patent issue, or certain details of the design. I know GetD and Volfoni had some fights with RealD about these systems as well, but I am not current on the state of these.
I understand that the basic Z-Screen type of electronic polarization switcher can not be patented, or is simply easier to license, while the XL is the more complex design that RealD wanted to protect.
Another important IP asset of RealD is the Ghostbusting process. You can only license it from RealD. Well you can say it's not an asset, but a pain in the ass, as it is a necessary evil to display a bearable picture through the Z-Screen at all. MI's disc based systems use rotating wheels, but static filters with much better polarization figures. Even in that rotating arrangement and without ghostbusting applied, their separation contrast was better than that of the RealD Z-Screen WITH ghostbusting.
quote: Richard Fowler
The second 3D supplier having a change of ownership this week.
Yes, Volfoni was bought by Luxin-Rio, but that takeover deal seems to have less of an impact compared to the 'unfriendly' RealD - > MasterImage transaction.
- Carsten
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