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Vancouver-based ArtTech Company Arius Technology Strengthens IP Portfolio with Important New Fine Art Colour Imaging Patent
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Vancouver, BC, June 15, 2021--(T-Net)--Arius Technology, a leading art technology company, announced today that it has been granted United States Patent No. 11025800: Systems and Methods for Imaging Fine Art Paintings.
The patent covers Arius' innovative way to colour map a painting which removes specularity¹ and shadow².
The resulting sharp image, with perfectly aligned geometry and colour, can be used for condition analytics, highly accurate replication and ultra-high resolution digital visualization.
Paul Lindahl, CEO, Arius
Paul Lindahl said: "We have a strong intellectual property strategy at Arius, and this patent is recognition of the innovative technology and methodology we are developing to tackle issues of digitization, visualization and authentication in the art world."
"Arius has developed technology that bridges the worlds of analog and digital art, opening new ways to view, appreciate, evaluate and create art. This patent strengthens our differentiation and provides sustainable competitive advantage."
The core of the Arius technology is the Art Digital Master File (ADMF™) platform, an ultra-high resolution point cloud data set collected by direct color laser measurement of the surface of a painting.
The ADMF™ can be used to: immutably register ownership in the blockchain; create brushstroke-level digital visualization of paintings; create near-perfect replications for display; analyze the condition of a work to a level of detail unseen by the human eye; and, in collaboration with contemporary artists, digitally create iterative works to be published as NFTs or textured original edition prints.
This conservation-quality imaging technology, originally developed for the forensic analysis of the Mona Lisa, offers a level of detail previously unavailable to the commercial art world. Effectively a digital genome of the painting, the ADMF data also holds the potential to become the cornerstone of multi-factor authentication in the art world.
About Arius Technology
Arius is a world leader in ultra-high-resolution 3D color laser data capture, data analysis and data visualization for fine art. Sophisticated data processing assembles millions of data points representing color and surface geometry into the Art Digital Masterfile (ADMF™) platform which can be stored in much the same way as a master tape in the music industry. The ADMF™ data can be used for a wide array of applications, including condition analytics, online viewing and high-fidelity replications. Arius collaborates with museums, galleries, collectors, and artists to digitize art for preservation, visualization, documentation, and authentication.
For more information visit https://www.ariustechnology.com
¹Specularity occurs when light bounces off a glossy surface, resulting in a captured colour that is lighter than the actual colour.
²Shadows result from the contours of brushstrokes, resulting in areas of captured images appearing flat and blurred.
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