Google has been splashing the cash again and acquired the video enhancement specialist, Green Parrot Pictures. The purchase is thought to be part to Google’s bigger plan to improve and enhance their YouTube video.
Green Parrot Pictures, is a digital video technology company founded 6 years ago by Associate Professor Anil Kokaram at the Engineering School of Trinity College in Dublin, Ireland. Green Parrot Pictures specialise in cutting-edge video quality improvement technology that has been used in major studio productions from Lord of the Rings to X-Men to Spider-Man
Demonstrations of their technology is available on their website and includes methods of removing camera shake and flicker, and restoring detail lost to noise and blotches.
With the equivalent of over 170,000 full-length movies uploaded to YouTube every week, the team at Green Parrot Pictures will definitely not be short of work.