Wilson Markle
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| Wilson Markle | |
 Wilson Markle |
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| Personal information | |
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| Name | Wilson Markle |
| Nationality | Canada |
| Birth date | 2 September 1938 |
| Work | |
| Institution memberships | Colorization Inc. |
| Significant advance | Film colorization |
Wilson MarkleCanadian (b. 2 September 1938) is a Canadian engineer who invented the film colorization process in 1983. His method used computers to assign predetermined colours to shades of gray in each scene.
[edit] Patents
An application for the first patent on the process was made in Canada on on 11 Jul 1983 and issued 1 Dec 1987 (No. 4,710,805).
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