Synthonics Gets Patent for 3-D Color Images

Synthonics Inc. in Westlake Village, developer of 3-D Rapid Virtual Reality, has been awarded a patent that includes processes that will be used to transmit 3-D color images across television airwaves.

This is the third patent approved for Synthonics in less than a year, and company officials said it arrived just in time for the advent of high-definition television.

“We hope to interest broadcasters in using our technologies in daily programming to create and transmit high-quality, full-depth images that duplicate three-dimensional objects and environments in viewers’ homes,” said Mike Budd, Synthonics president and chief executive officer. “We can now do this very inexpensively, without experiencing the loss of definition that plagued early 3-D experiments on standard TVs.”

Synthonics’ patented technologies can also be used to add a third dimension to distance learning and other educational applications that rely on television transmissions, according to Budd. Anyone taking a course from distant institutions can see and interact with objects that are part of the lesson, as though the students were in class, he said.

Synthonics, a software development subsidiary of Synthonics Technologies, has filed 17 U.S. and six international patent applications over the last three years covering various aspects of the subsidiary’s 3-D digital replication and image transmission technologies.