Innovation at Kodak
From lottery tickets to multimillion dollar box office hits, Kodak brainpower is in places you may never have realized. Kodak scientists and engineers regularly receive awards for their contributions to a variety of scientific and technical fields, and we are focused on building relationships to expand current businesses and create new ones through technology partnerships that drive market differentiation. The Eastman Kodak Company leads the way with an abundance of new products and processes.
Images form an extension of our senses and emotions. Their value lines in the emotion, esthetics and information that can be shared.
Printed output makes our images tangible. It can be in the form of a snapshot, a publication, a product package or billboard.
Moving images tell stories. They transport us to other places and times to immerse ourselves in the story.
Kodak's vast specturm of technology itnerests range from Display Technologies to Microfluidic Processes for Printing Applications.
Team profiles from Kodak's research community.
Kodak External Alliances is focused on accessing technologies at an early stage in the pipeline thereby strengthening Kodak's competitive position in the marketplace.
Patents, Accomplishments & History
The work focuses on technologies that help us sense, perceive and organize images in ways that are intuitive and powerful. Teams are working to boost the capabilities of today's digital imaging systems through innovation acquisition and processing techniques.
Image processing, digital sensors, optics, and illumination combine to create novel imaging capabilities.
While there has been no shortage of effort in analyzing the visual aspects of multimedia in all its forms, the question of what can be done with sound is beginning to gain momentum.
Collection and processing of information from sequences of digital images.
Mobile devices craete exciting new challenges for imaging technology.
Sensing and producing images require materials with very special properties. The semiconductor materials, inks, toners and papers used in Kodak systems draw upon a deep understanding of the most sophisticated properties of these materials.
Work on the advanced properties of different polymers for use in imaging systems.
Sophisticated techniques to analytically predict how certain materials will behave.
Interfaces are everywhere in our world: some exist between different states of matter (solid, liquid, gas) or between different compositions of the same or different state. Inter-facial functionality defines what processes take place at an interface, or in many cases which are inhibited.
Imaging and printing systems have to sense and control physical substances such as liquids or particulates, react to forces caused by gravity or acceleration, and manipulate the intensity, spectral content, and coherency of light.
Optoelectronic and electro-optical materials form strategic research focus for Kodak.
Using the forces of physics to manipulate things on a very small scale: tiny volumes of fluids thousands of times smaller than a dew drop.
Microelectronic mechanical machines (MEMS) and optical MEMS (MOEMS) are usually made with standard semiconductor materials.