Full Name
Laurence Thorpe
Job Title
Retired
Company
Retired canon USA
Bio
Senior Fellow, Imaging Technologies & Communications Group, Canon USA Inc.

2015 awarded 2014 Engineering Emmy Charles F. Jenkins Award for lifetime achievement by Academy of Television Arts and Sciences.

October 2015, Honorary Membership in the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers (SMPTE®).

1982 joined Sony Broadcast Company. 1984 to 2003, responsible for HDTV market development. 2001 to 2004 Senior Vice President of Content Creation Systems.

Received NAB 2000 Television Engineering Achievement Award and Montreux 2000 Gold Medal Award for Digital Cinematography.

1966 to 1982, RCA Broadcast Division – developing color television cameras and telecine. 1981 David Sarnoff Award for innovations in automatic studio color cameras. Ten patents based upon work at RCA.

1961 to 1966 Designs Dept. BBC in London, England.

IEE Graduate (1961), College Technology, Dublin, Ireland. 1965 Received Chartered Engineer (C. Eng.) and MIEE distinction.
Laurence Thorpe