6P Color Inc. Honored with Lumière Award for Breakthrough in Digital Color

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6P Color Inc. and its transcendent Full Color Range display system, developed by a team of researchers and industry professionals led by Baylor University Film & Digital Media researchers Corey P. Carbonara, Ph.D., and Michael F. Korpi, Ph.D., has been honored for its impact and innovation with a Lumière Production Technology Award from the Advanced Imaging Society.

Awarded Feb. 9 in Beverly Hills, California, the prestigious Lumière Awards recognize technologies, tools, platforms and innovations that significantly advance the production of visual media. The awards highlight breakthroughs, like that of 6P Color, that enable filmmakers, artists and technicians to expand the possibilities of imaging and cinematic storytelling.

“It is humbling to receive the Lumière Award from the Advanced Imaging Society and I am grateful for what this recognition means for Baylor University and 6P Color Inc.,” Carbonara said. “Congratulations must go out as well to my colleagues Dr. Michael Korpi and Dr. Dan Shafer of Baylor’s Department of Film & Digital Media and an incredible team who all played an enormous role in making receiving this award possible. Being recognized for this technical achievement by the entire Hollywood Motion Picture community was a true blessing for me and the team and I thank God for this and all of His Blessings He has bestowed on this project.”

6P Color is a color science innovation company revolutionizing the digital visual experience through its Full Color Range technology that unlocks the full spectrum of color – across every platform, device and application worldwide. What began as a sponsored research project at Baylor now has implications for television and cinema storytelling by transcending long-used color systems that compress color and limit it to fit the capacity of most screens. 

“This Lumière Award belongs to the researchers, engineers and industry partners who believed the future of color didn't have to be trapped inside a triangle of red, green and blue,” Korpi said. “The technology was born right here at Baylor, and its recognition by the entertainment industry is something our entire university community can take pride in.”

6P Color was inspired by former Sony executive Gary Mandle, who knew Carbonara when the Baylor professor was Sony’s first product manager of high-definition video systems for the TV and cinema industries. Mandle was interested in working with Baylor to improve and enhance the color viewing experience for audiences worldwide by expanding the full color range that can be applied to all screens.

“6P Color’s support of this project along with the incredible developments of Brazos Innovation Partners have provided even more opportunities for better color experiences by not only those who view these images but those who create it as well,” Carbonara said.

Award-winning writer and filmmaker Chris Hansen, M.F.A., who serves as professor and FDM department chair, said until 6P Color’s technological innovation, led by Baylor researchers Carbonara and Korpi, no one knew how much color information had been missing when viewing images on screens.

“The Lumière Award confirms how impressive this work is, and the recognition from such an esteemed organization in the film and television industry will have a huge impact on its wide adoption going forward,” Hansen said. “Having this new color technology be a product of the great minds in Baylor Film & Digital Media is a testament to the compelling work we do in this department.”

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