[Sector Specific Advantages]
In general, SACOR3D’s breakthrough technology affords its users production cost savings of 50% to 75% by moving processes from labor and personnel intensive procedures to automated super computer applications. Production and market delivery time-lines can be reduced by a factor of four. All this with enhanced True2Life realism and high definition imaging never before attainable.
[Motion Picture and TV Production]
Current System: CYRA Technologies- Cyrax System
This company provides a 3-D laser scanning solution for still sets. The technology is used for defining the 3D frame of a site or a set, and can be used for image rendering.
SACOR3D Advantages
The SACOR technology generates 3-D content of a site from a pair of images by utilizing photogrammetric principles. The images are captured with a synchronous pair of cameras that allows motion in the process of image capture. Such capability is beyond what the CYRA solution can offer.
Current System: Synapix
This company offers a solution for generating 3-D content by tracking camera movement in movie sequences, and by utilizing images at different locations of the camera to extract 3-D content. The solution cannot address motion in the scene from which it extracts 3-D content.
SACOR3D Advantages
The SAC solution is comprehensive and operates on any synchronous pair of overlapping images to extract 3-D content regardless of whether the scene, or object in the scene, is in motion during the capture of images.
Current System: Blue Sky Studios
This company offers ray-tracing techniques to generate multiple POV visualization. Their solution is considered present day technology, and is in use by the film industry for generating special effects with 2-D images. This technology does not generate 3-D content for use in special effect images.
SACOR3D Advantages
The SACOR technology generates 3-D content through the utilization of photogrammetric principles. This capability represents the future for creating special effects in film quality productions.
Current Systems: Manex, Rainmaker and vfxpro
These companies utilize technologies similar to those used by Blue Sky Studios. They have similar limitations.
SACOR3D Advantages
SACOR3D offers a photogrammetric 3-D, real time solution
that is True to Life. This solution is the next generation technology
for
TV / Film production.
Current System: SGI
This company is primarily hardware oriented in the solution it offers in this market. The software utilized comes from other sources.
Current System: CAE Electronics
This company offers solutions similar to those offered by SGI.
Current System: Evans and Sutherland
This company’s solutions are also similar to those offered by SGI. They also offer visual products that are utilized by simulator developers.
Current System: MultiGen Paradigm
This company offers general software solutions based on conglomeration of independent software companies cooperating together within this market. The available software packages are used in modular fashion to address different requirements called for in operating a simulator.
SACOR3D Advantages
The SACOR3D solution is software oriented and is not in direct competition with above companies. The SACOR3D solution utilizes photogrammetric principles to generate 3D visuals that have True to Life definition, and can be acquired in dynamic environments. The latter products complement and further enable the solutions offered by the above companies. The above companies will serve as venues for marketing the SACOR3D visual products.
[Mapping and Spatial Solutions]
Current Systems: Traditional optical correlation solutions
There are many companies that own optical correlators which are used in performing typical mapping tasks. These devices are labor intensive, inefficient and are being made obsolete by the digital revolution in mapping.
SACOR3D Advantages
The SACOR3D solution is fully digital and can be used for close range and aerial mapping.
Current Systems: Digital techniques to mapping
The following companies have introduced digital techniques
to mapping:
- ERDAS
- Intergraph
- L-H Systems
SACOR3D Advantages
Although their solutions are superior in comparison to optical methods, they are inferior in comparison to the SACOR3D technology. The automatic correlation methods used by these companies rely on the feature matching principle, which is less accurate and low in spatial resolution.
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