Vision Research Colleagues to Receive Academy Award® for Contributing Significant Value to the Process of Making Motion Pictures

Radu Corlan, Petru Pop, Andy Jantzen and Richard Toftness will receive a Scientific and Engineering Award

01/06/2012

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences® has selected four colleagues from Vision Research, to receive Scientific and Engineering Academy Awards® for their contributions to the design and development of Phantom® high-speed digital cameras.

The four Vision Research employees selected to receive the awards are:

• Radu Corlan, Chief Scientist, who was responsible for the sensor specification and design, camera architecture, firmware, CineMag® and CineStation® mass storage devices.
  
  

• Petru Pop, Software Architect, who was responsible for software design to realize the image processing pipeline as well as the CineMag and CineStation mass storage devices.
  
  

• Andy Jantzen, Chief Technology Officer, who contributed to the sensor specification, camera and work flow requirements, as well as system integration.
  
  

• Richard Toftness, Vice President, Research and Development, who was responsible for the system product realization, production and engineering support, as well as product fine tuning.

Scientific and Engineering Awards are given for achievements that exhibit a high level of engineering and are important to the progress of the motion picture industry.

Vision Research would to extend our congratulations to the other 2012 scientific and technology award winners.

Click here to download Vision Research's official press release.

Click here to read the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Science's press release.