Apple paid an undisclosed amount for the mobile photo-enhancement technology developer, which had received nearly $8m in funding from investors including Martlet.
Spectral Edge, a UK-based automated image enhancement technology developer, has been acquired by computing technology producer Apple for an undisclosed amount, allowing aerospace manufacturer Marshall of Cambridge to exit, Bloomberg has reported.
Spun out of University of East Anglia’s Colour Lab in 2011, Spectral Edge has developed technology that enhances smartphone photographs by correlating infrared footage with a standard picture to create sharper images with more accurate colours.
Initially designed to help people with colour blindness, the infrared technology was…