About Digital ICETM |
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Note: the Digital ICE (DICE) function is only available with ScanWit2740S Film Scanner.
Advances in image scanning technology have led to ever increasing usages of digitized images for further processing, storage, and handling. However, it happens that the quality of many scanned images, from negative and positive films, are still not satisfactory enough, especially to high quality minded professional photo studios, photographers and press agencies. This is because non-image objects or surface imperfections such as scratches, fingerprints and dust degrade the final image quality.
Digital ICE (Image Correction and Enhancement) is a patented artifact-elimination technology developed by ASF (Applied Science Fiction). It is used to automatically remove scratches, fingerprints and dust from film surfaces during the scanning process and thus provide a clean, distortion-free and high-quality scanned image.
Image scanning is performed by capturing and processing image data via three color (RGB) channels. Digital ICE collects defect information that affects image quality via a fourth (D) channel. By gathering image information from these four channels for further calculation and processing, the identified defects in channel D are removed, leaving RGB data representing the pure and flawless original image.