Wilson Markle

Wilson Markle
Wilson Markle
Personal information
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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