Chapter 2157 Advancement of Assistive Technology (Third!)

With the acquisition of two comic companies, Yin Jun's film layout in the United States has basically reached the level of 2030, and he feels more at ease.

For the technical support of comic hero live-action movies, Kirin Group has also been advancing.

In the future era of special effects, first of all, the digital field belongs to Yin Jun.

For this digital field, which has become the world's largest special effects company, Yin Jun has invested too much.

The previous commitment was to invest US$10 million per year for five consecutive years, and the funds would not dilute the management's shares.

But now five years have passed, Yin Jun has invested a total of 200 million US dollars in the digital field.

Equivalent to 40 million US dollars a year.

For Yin Jun's move, although the senior executives in the digital field have been diluted a lot of shares, they are also very willing in their hearts.

Because all kinds of high-end equipment, all kinds of emerging computer special effects technologies, and all kinds of top talents have all gathered in the digital field.

Seeing that their company is getting more and more developed, they certainly have a sense of accomplishment.

As for the shares or something, I don't care about it. Although the proportion is constantly shrinking, the value is still rising.

Besides, Yin Jun has never treated them badly in terms of salary and dividends.

As a result, George Lucas complained to Yin Jun several times, saying that several engineers of Industrial Light and Magic have jumped to the digital field. Does Yin Jun want to poach his company?

Of course not.

Although Industrial Light and Magic has been surpassed by the digital field, George Lucas is a Jew, and he owns the copyrights of big IPs such as "Star Wars" and "Raiders of the Lost Ark". Many companies came to him to do it.

It's just that George Lucas is a bit stingy on weekdays, and the salary and dividends he gives are not too much, so only engineers have quit before.

After he raised the salary, the people of Industrial Light and Magic also stabilized.

After all, they are familiar with an environment, and they don't want to change jobs and change their work and living habits.

However, compared with the scale and achievements in the digital field, Industrial Light and Magic has indeed lagged behind a lot in recent years.

But there is no way, George Lucas simply does not have much money to upgrade Industrial Light & Magic.

The alimony he gave to his ex-wife last year was all due to Yin Jun buying the animation team of Industrial Light and Magic, so that he could get the money.

Of course, in fact, this guy is quite bad and bad.

He spread out all his money, and then pretended to take out a large debt so that when the property was divided, his ex-wife didn't get much.

Then George Lucas tried his best to pretend to be poor. He had no money. Even if he sold the company's business, he would not expose his previous property.

In fact, with George Lucas' hard work for so many years, his assets have at least exceeded 500 million US dollars.

In addition to the special effects in the digital field, IMAX technology also belongs to Yin Jun.

Yin Jun also invested a lot of money in it for their development.

The main thing is to continuously increase the effect of IMAX, and then desperately reduce the cost of various equipment, shooting costs, etc. on the other hand.

Only in this way, IMAX will continue to develop rapidly and become the mainstream of the future movie world.

But, in fact, this is not very realistic.

When IMAX had the most screens, it accounted for less than one-fifth of all screens.

The real super-large IMAX screens are even more pitiful, and in the end they were completely sealed up by the IMAX company because of the cost.

So Yin Jun worked hard 20 years in advance to see if he could increase this ratio a bit.

Even if I don't get that kind of super big IMAX screen, the ordinary shrunken version of the IMAX screen is always okay, right?

After more than three years, more than 1,000 IMAX screens around the world are the fruits of IMAX's labor.

With an average of more than 20 IMAX movies per year, IMAX screens cannot make a lot of money, but they will definitely not lose money.

Moreover, there are a lot of loyal audiences on the IMAX screen. Once an authentic IMAX movie comes out, they will definitely not go to the ordinary version. .

Therefore, the bosses of major theaters still chose to keep the IMAX screen.

Don't ask how much money it makes, just ask it to be a sign and not lose money at the same time.

Among them, the IMAX version of the movie produced by Yin Jun's United Artists Film Company and Disney is the most authentic.

While the cost increases, the effect will naturally be better, so their IMAX is not a good movie that can attract audiences to the IMAX screening hall.

But the problem now is that there are too few IMAX movies.

In particular, there are so few good IMAX movies.

It would be the best if we could add three or five superhero movies a year.

It's a pity that today's various special effects can't meet the requirements, so in fact, the filmed by Kirin Group is still a bit of a fake IMAX movie.

In addition to the IMAX screen, of course there is also a very important film shooting and projection technology in the future-3D.

3D technology was very popular for a while 15 years ago.

But because the quality of the movie is really not worthy of 3D, and the effect does not need 3D to display at all, so after people's novelty wears off, 3D movies are completely cool.

Over the years, basically no commercial 3D movie has appeared, which shows how unpopular this model is.

Copyrights for 3D technology are very fragmented, with about 17 companies owning various copyrights to it.

Every time a 3D movie is released, they will be given copyright fees. This is not a lot of expenses, but it will be paid for every movie.

It's just that there hasn't been a 3D movie released in the past few years, so it's useless to hold the patents in their hands.

You should know that patents generally last for 20 years, and the period of application is also excluded.

For example, you applied for a patent in January 1985. Three years later, in January 1988, the patent came down, but its patent term was from January 1985 to January 2005.

Yes.

You are not mistaken, counting from the date of application, not from the time of approval.

Pit father ah!

So the time of more than ten years must be very precious.

Everyone is desperately trying to make more money, and then make up for the previous research and development expenses.

Larger companies will continue to conduct research and development on the basis of these patents, and then upgrade patents to maintain new patent rights.

That's why you can see that companies such as Toyota and Mercedes-Benz have maintained key patent rights for a long time.

But it also depends on the situation.

If it is a patent with no follow-up benefits, many companies will not maintain it at all, and it will expire immediately after it expires.

In the eyes of many people, 3D technology is like this, so from 25 companies with patents more than ten years ago, now only 17 companies have patents.

Moreover, within the last three years, the patents of the five companies should have expired, and they have no intention of continuing to develop and upgrade.

In the past few years, Kirin Lab has been trying to purchase their patents, or at least obtain patent authorization, in addition to picking up and developing the 3D technology that has been released.

Everyone knows that Qilin Group is a fat sheep, and they also know that they really want to use 3D technology. After all, Yin Jun's profession is to do movie entertainment.

But their confidence is not so sufficient.

Because everyone knows that 3D technology may be useful in the future, but in the last 3578 years, it will definitely not be of much use.

For a technology that almost all patents will expire in the next 10 years, Kirin Lab idiots will spend a lot of money to buy it.

The imbalance between supply and demand has naturally caused Kirin Labs to be a buyer's market, which is very strong.

If you want to sell it, sell it, and I will give you a good price.

If you don't sell it, I will wait for your patent right to expire, and I will use it again.

If you are willing to spend a lot of money to upgrade the 3D patent, then I am quite convinced of you, we will wait three to five years to see if you will lose all your money!

Under this mentality and reality, Kylin Lab has bought almost all 3D technology patents in the market.

Even if dozens of items are about to expire, they don't care.

The most important thing is that these technical reserves can come in handy to catch up with the new research on 3D technology they are conducting on a large scale.

This is the most important.

In fact, over the past few years, Kirin Lab has applied for more than a dozen 3D patents, and there are 6 of them.

With the addition of these technical patents, more patents will be mastered by them in the future, thus occupying a more important position in the future 3D movie technology.

They don't think that 3D technology will come in handy soon, but Yin Jun said that within 10 years, a new type of 3D movie will definitely come out, so they are so desperately researching it.

They trust Yin Jun very much, and it can be said that they admire Yin Jun's vision very much.

They don't know the scope and prospects of 3D movies in the future.

But according to Yin Jun's attitude, I'm afraid it will be comparable to IMAX in the future.

Then, the rewards from the boss are also very rich. As long as you get the results according to his requirements, then the huge rewards of hundreds of thousands of dollars will definitely be given.

They are all people who earn money to eat. Who doesn't like dollars?

Yin Jun himself appreciates the employees' thinking.

I'm not afraid that you come here for rewards, but I'm afraid that you won't get rewards despite your hard work, and that will make me unhappy.

The more technical reserves and the more new technology development, it will definitely be a great improvement for the future movie perception!

Future audiences will really be inseparable from 3D technology movies.

As long as I master this technology, including special effects production technology, including IMAX technology, the global film industry will have to act according to my face?

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(Recently, I have been working hard on the end and new book of this book. Today, the wood moderator told me that I just found out. I am sorry! Fortunately, Xiucai has never given up writing this book recently! Starting today, I will speed up the release, 3 days a day Chapter, add another chapter at 12:00 noon, it should end at the end of this month! I beg all readers to continue to support!)