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44-631: In 1975, Steven Sasson developed Kodak's first prototype digital still camera, which used a Fairchild 100 x 100 pixel CCD . By 1986 Kodak had developed a sensor with 1.4 million pixels. It was used in what is believed to be the world's first Digital Single-Lens Reflex (D-SLR) camera, known as the Electro-Optic Camera, which was designed and constructed by Eastman Kodak Company under a U.S. Government contract in 1987 and 1988. A number of other improvements were made to increase image quality and usability, including improvements in sensor technology,

88-414: A broad assignment from his supervisor at Eastman Kodak Company, Gareth A. Lloyd: to attempt to build an electronic camera using a commercially available charge-coupled device (CCD). The resulting camera invention was awarded the U.S. patent number 4,131,919. Sasson retired from Eastman Kodak Company in 2009, and began working as a consultant in an intellectual property protection role. Sasson joined

132-608: A copy of the Leica design, Japan's first 35 mm focal-plane-shutter camera, was developed in prototype form. In 1940 Canon developed Japan's first indirect X-ray camera. Canon introduced a field zoom lens for television broadcasting in 1958, and in 1959 introduced the Reflex Zoom 8 and the Canonflex . In 1961, Canon introduced the Rangefinder camera, Canon 7 , and 50mm 1:0.95 lens in

176-626: A hard coat. In 1996, Canon introduced a pocket-sized digital camera with the Advanced Photo System , named ELPH in America and IXUS in Europe. Canon entered the digital video camcorder market in 1997. In 2004, Canon introduced the XEED SX50 LCD projector. Canon introduced its first high-definition camcorder in 2005. In November 2009, Canon made a €730 million (US$ 1.1 billion) all-cash offer for

220-543: A process that took 23 seconds per image. His camera took images in black-and-white . As he set out on his design project, what he envisioned for the future was a camera without mechanical moving parts (although his device did have moving parts, such as the tape drive). In 1977, Kodak filed a patent application on some features of Sasson's prototype camera. Titled "electronic still camera", the patent listed Sasson and Gareth Lloyd as co-inventors. The issued patent, U.S. patent number 4,131,919. claims an arrangement that allows

264-490: A range of wireless presenters, from advanced green laser presenters with back-lit screen display to basic red laser presentation clickers. Canon is developing a prototype virtual reality headset (Canon VR). The headset offers a wider viewing angle (120°) than other VR devices but requires handles rather than a head strap. The headset is not yet available on the market. As of 2020, Canon produces and sells high-end AR ( augmented reality ) headsets for enterprise users. Canon

308-511: A single interface; therefore the company will operate as a separate entity. On 10 February 2015, Canon announced that it had intentions to buy Swedish Security Camera maker Axis Communications for US$ 2.83 billion. On 23 February 2015, Axis Communications reacted to this news and confirmed that it had received a purchase proposal from Canon. The purchase was effectively completed in April 2015. On 24 April 2015, Canon Europe announced it had acquired

352-611: A special bayonet mount. In 1964 Canon introduced the 'Canola 130', the first Japanese made 10-key calculator , a substantial improvement on the design of the British Bell Punch company, which introduced the first fully electronic calculator two years earlier with the Sumlock Anita Mark 8 unit. In 1965 Canon introduced the Canon Pellix , a single lens reflex (SLR) camera with a semi-transparent stationary mirror which enabled

396-692: A suggested retail price of $ 28,500. These models were also sold by Canon, as the Canon D2000 and D6000 respectively, and were the first digital SLRs sold under the Canon name. Kodak used the same electronics package for the DCS 600 series, which is based on the Nikon F5 . The DCS 600 range includes the Kodak DCS 620x, a high-sensitivity model with an upgraded indium tin oxide sensor and a cyan-magenta-yellow Bayer filter , which has

440-403: A then-unique top ISO setting of ISO 6400. Kodak concluded the initial DCS range with the DCS 700 series, which comprises the 2-megapixel DCS 720x, the 6-megapixel DCS 760, and the 6-megapixel DCS 760m, which has a monochrome sensor. By the time of launch, Kodak faced competition from the popular Nikon D1 and Nikon D1x, which were physically smaller and cheaper. The DCS 760's initial list price

484-612: A wide range of flatbed scanners , film scanners and document scanners for home and business use, including the Canon CanoScan 8800F . Some of its scanners employ LED inDirect Exposure (LiDE) technology, such that USB port is sufficient to power the scanner, and no additional power is required. Current printers use the proprietary BJNP protocol (USB over IP port 8611). Canon produced a range of calculators in various applications, including handheld calculators, desktop calculators, printing calculators and scientific calculators. One model

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528-401: Is a 1972 (BS) and 1973 (MS) graduate of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in electrical engineering . Steven Sasson developed a portable, battery operated, self-contained digital camera at Kodak in 1975. It weighed 8 pounds (3.6 kg) and used a Fairchild CCD image sensor having only 100 × 100 pixels (0.01 megapixels ). The images were digitally recorded onto a cassette tape ,

572-532: Is a Japanese multinational corporation headquartered in Ōta , Tokyo , specializing in optical, imaging, and industrial products, such as lenses , cameras , medical equipment, scanners , printers , and semiconductor manufacturing equipment. Canon has a primary listing on the Tokyo Stock Exchange and is a constituent of the TOPIX Core 30 and Nikkei 225 indexes. It used to have a secondary listing on

616-462: Is an American electrical engineer and the inventor of the self-contained (portable) digital camera . He joined Kodak shortly after his graduation from engineering school and retired from Kodak in 2009. Sasson was born in Brooklyn, New York , the son of Ragnhild Tomine (Endresen) and John Vincent Sasson. His mother was Norwegian. He attended and graduated from Brooklyn Technical High School . He

660-495: Is one of the world's top producers of semiconductor and display manufacturing equipment. Its subsidiary Canon Tokki dominates the market of material deposition equipment, and instruments for manufacturing OLED displays. Canon is also the leading manufacturer of display photolithography equipment and one of the top 3 in the semiconductor lithography machine market. Once a leader of semiconductor lithography along with Nikon , it has been dwarfed by ASML , and as of 2017 its share in

704-788: The New York Stock Exchange . The company was originally named Seikikōgaku kenkyūsho ( Japanese : 精機光学研究所 , lit.   'Precision Optical Laboratory'). In 1934, it produced the Kwanon , a prototype for Japan's first-ever 35 mm camera with a focal-plane-based shutter. In 1947, the company name was changed to Canon Camera Co., Inc. , shortened to Canon Inc. in 1969. The name Canon comes from Buddhist bodhisattva Kannon ( Japanese : 観音 , lit.   ' Guanyin '), previously transliterated as Kuanyin, Kwannon, or Kwanon in English. The origins of Canon date back to

748-906: The University of South Florida Institute for Advanced Discovery & Innovation in 2018, where he is a member and courtesy professor. On November 17, 2009, U.S. President Barack Obama awarded Sasson the National Medal of Technology and Innovation at a ceremony in the East Room of the White House . This is the highest honor awarded by the US government to scientists, engineers, and inventors. On September 6, 2012 The Royal Photographic Society awarded Sasson its Progress Medal and Honorary Fellowship "in recognition of any invention, research, publication or other contribution that has resulted in an important advance in

792-531: The 1.5-megapixel DCS 420, and the 6-megapixel Kodak DCS 460, which retailed for $ 28,000 on launch. In common with Kodak's later 6-megapixel models, the DCS 460 used the award-winning APS-H Kodak M6 sensor. A modified version of the DCS 420 was also sold by the Associated Press as the Associated Press NC2000. In parallel with the DCS 400 series Kodak also sold the analogous Kodak EOS DCS range, which

836-574: The 270EX II, 320EX, 430EX II, 430EX III-RT, 470EX-AI, 580EX, 580EX II, 600EX-RT, 600EXII-RT, EL-1, and EL-5 Speedlites. Canon also produces macro flash units, including the Macro Twin Lite and the Macro Ring Lite. Canon designs and manufactures CMOS image sensors in-house for its imaging products and it has three dedicated fabs in Japan . In 2016, Canon, the fifth-largest image sensor manufacturer in

880-453: The CCD to be read out quickly ("in real time") into a temporary buffer of random-access memory , and then written to storage at the lower speed of the storage device. Most modern digital cameras still use such an arrangement, which was also described in an earlier MIT patent that employed a vidicon sensor rather than a CCD. His prototype was not the first camera that produced digital images, but it

924-683: The Canon LBP-SX engine. Later models used the Canon LBP-LX, LBP-EX, LBP-PX engines and many other Canon print engines. Following Canon's acquisition of the Dutch digital printing manufacturer Océ in 2010, Canon continued to develop and manufacture printing systems, initially under the Océ brand name. On 1.1.2020 the company Océ was officially renamed Canon Production Printing . Canon has been sued over intentionally designing all-in-one printers that cannot scan when

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968-647: The Canon-compatible DCS PRO SLR/c, which is based on a Sigma SA9 SLR. Kodak discontinued the SLR/n and SLR/c in May 2005, to concentrate on compact digital cameras and high-end medium format digital backs for Leaf , among others. Kodak continued to design and manufacture CCD image sensors, including the full-frame 18-megapixel KAF-18500, which is used in the Leica M9 digital rangefinder, until its image sensor division

1012-496: The Dutch printer maker Océ . Canon had acquired majority ownership of Océ by March 2010, and completed the acquisition of 100% of shares in Océ by the end of 2011. In 2010, Canon acquired Tereck Office Solutions, Inc. On 16 March 2010, Canon announced that it was seeking to acquire a new .canon generic top-level domain , acquiring it in February 2015 and using it for the first time on its global website in May 2016. In

1056-483: The London-based family photo sharing startup Lifecake. In November 2015, in an effort to avoid the selling of gray-market camera gear, Canon USA filed litigation against a number of camera gear retailers. Retailers include Get It Digital, All New Shop and F&E Trading. In March 2016, Canon acquired Toshiba Medical Systems Corporation for US$ 5.9 billion. On 28 March 2017, Canon Europe announced it had acquired

1100-960: The London-based printing startup Kite. On 2 April 2019, Canon introduces two new UHDgc 2/3-inch Portable Zoom Lenses designed For 4K UHD Broadcast Cameras. In July 2020, Canon recorded its first ever quarterly loss due to the COVID-19 pandemic. In September 2020, Fujitsu announced that it would provide Canon with a Fujitsu Supercomputer PRIMEHPC FX1000 unit, to assist with its no-prototype development manufacturing initiative. In December 2020, Canon concluded its photographic-equipment print-ad series named "Wildlife as Canon Sees It". This series of ads began in 1981 in National Geographic magazine. In October 2023, Canon introduced its new nanoimprint lithography manufacturing systems, which it claims are simpler and more affordable than ASML 's extreme ultraviolet lithography systems. The system prints

1144-590: The RC-701. The RC series was followed by the PowerShot and Digital IXUS series of digital cameras. Canon also developed the EOS series of digital single-lens reflex cameras (DSLR) which includes high-end professional models. Due to consumers switching from compact cameras to smartphones , Canon's Q1 2013 operating profit fell 34 percent year-on-year. Canon produces a range of high-output flash units for its DSLR cameras, including

1188-1073: The desired circuit pattern onto the silicon wafer bypassing photolithography and can produce circuits equivalent to 5  nm scale. Canon's products include cameras (including compact digital camera , video camera , film SLR and digital SLR ), camcorders , lenses , broadcasting equipment and solutions (such as free viewpoint solution), professional displays, projectors , manufacturing equipment (including photolithography equipment such as steppers , scanners ), printers , photocopiers , image scanners , digital microfilm scanners , fax machines , binoculars , microscopes , medical equipment (including diagnostic systems such as ultrasound , X-ray , CT and MRI scanners and ophthalmic equipment ), CCTV solutions, image sensors , calculators , high precision positioning and measurement devices (such as rotary encoders ), custom optical components, handy terminals , mixed reality systems, software, and space satellites . Canon has been manufacturing and distributing digital cameras since 1984, starting with

1232-461: The first raw image format known as DCR (Digital Camera Raw), and host software to process the DCR images. The original Kodak DCS was launched in 1991, and is based on a stock Nikon F3 SLR film camera with a CCD image sensor mounted in the film gate. It uses a 1.3-megapixel Kodak KAF-1300 sensor, and a separate shoulder-mounted processing and storage unit. The DCS 200 series, introduced in 1992, condenses

1276-542: The first-ever camera with eye-controlled AF, and the PowerShot 600, its first digital camera. In 1995, Canon introduced the first commercially available SLR lens with internal image stabilization, Canon EF 75-300mm lens f/4-5.6 IS USM. The Canon EOS-RS was the world's fastest AF SLR camera with a continuous shooting speed of 10 frame/s at the time. Based on the EOS-1N, the EOS-1N RS had a fixed, semi-transparent pellicle mirror with

1320-584: The founding of Precision Optical Instruments Laboratory in Japan in 1933 by Takeshi Mitarai , Goro Yoshida  [ jp ] , Saburo Uchida  [ jp ] and Takeo Maeda  [ jp ] . It became the company Precision Optical Instruments, Co., Ltd. in 1937. During its early years, the company did not have any facilities to produce its own optical glass, and its first cameras incorporated Nikkor lenses from Nippon Kogaku K.K. (the later Nikon Corporation ). Between 1933 and 1936, 'The Kwanon',

1364-561: The goddess of the dawn, along with the Canon EOS 650 autofocus SLR camera. Also in 1987, the Canon Foundation was established. In 1988, Canon introduced 'Kyosei philosophy'. The EOS 1 Flagship Professional SLR line was launched in 1989. In the same year the EOS RT, the world's first AF SLR with a fixed, semi-transparent pellicle mirror, was unveiled. In 1992, Canon launched the Canon EOS 5 ,

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1408-663: The overall market was less than 5%. Still, Canon maintains a great presence in the i-line stepper market. Canon introduced two MSX home computer models in 1983, the V-10 and the V-20 . Both offered just the minimum range of the MSX standards without any additional features. The V-20 was able to receive shooting data from the T90 Canon camera with the Data Memory Back T90 expansion. Canon also sold

1452-478: The printer is low on ink. Canon settled the lawsuit in 2023 without admitting guilt. Canon's largest division in terms of revenue is its multifunction copier division. Canon distributes its consumer and home office imageCLASS line though retail outlets and professional-grade imageRUNNER series through subsidiary Canon Solutions America and independent distributors. The professional-grade series ranges from small table tops to large digital presses. Canon manufactures

1496-645: The scientific or technological development of photography or imaging in the widest sense." Leica Camera AG honored Sasson by presenting to him one of its cameras at the Photokina 2010 trade show event. Sasson was inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame in 2011, and later elected as a Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors in 2018. Canon (company) Canon Inc. ( Japanese : キヤノン株式会社 ; Hepburn : Kyanon kabushiki gaisha )

1540-458: The storage unit into a module which is mounted onto the base and back of a stock Nikon 8008 SLR film camera. It was the first digital camera to use the Bayer color filter pattern . The module contains a built-in 80 megabyte hard drive and is powered with AA batteries. It was followed by the upgraded DCS 400 series of 1994, which replaces the hard drive with a PCMCIA card slot. The DCS 400 series includes

1584-577: The taking of pictures through the mirror. In 1971, Canon introduced the Canon F-1 , a high-end SLR camera, and the FD lens range . In 1976, Canon launched the Canon AE-1 , the world's first camera with an embedded micro-computer. Canon introduced their Inkjet printer using bubble-jet technology in 1985, one year after Hewlett-Packard. In 1987, Canon introduced their Canon Electro-Optical System (EOS), named after

1628-673: The third quarter of 2012, Canon's global market share in the sale of printers, copiers and multifunction devices was 20.90%. In early 2013, Canon USA moved into a new US$ 500 million headquarters in Melville, New York . In February 2014, Canon announced it would acquire Texas -based Molecular Imprints Inc., a developer of nanoprint lithography systems, for an amount speculated to be around US$ 98 million. On 13 June 2014, Canon announced it had acquired Danish IP Surveillance VMS software company Milestone Systems. Milestone provides open-platform software to allow video management from various vendors in

1672-400: The world, decided to start selling the sensors to other companies. However, it does not plan to sell smartphone image sensors to focus on the niche markets such as industrial and space observation. Although Canon had withdrawn from the so-called ' pixel count race' in the 2000s, it has been on the cutting edge as to the image sensor resolution in recent years. A demo of a 250MP image sensor

1716-466: Was $ 8,000. Kodak final generation of DCS cameras was launched with the Kodak DCS Pro 14n, a 14-megapixel full-frame digital SLR , in 2002, and continued with the upgraded DCS PRO SLR/n in 2004. These two cameras are based on a Nikon F80 body, and are considerably more compact than previous Kodaks. They use sensors designed by Belgian imaging company FillFactory. The DCS PRO SLR/n was also accompanied by

1760-549: Was based on the Canon EOS-1N SLR. With the exception of the original DCS 100, these early models do not include LCD preview screens. Kodak's subsequent models integrate the digital module with the camera body more thoroughly, and include LCD preview screens and removable batteries. The DCS 500 series of 1998 is also based on the Canon EOS-1N, and comprises the 2-megapixel DCS 520 and the 6-megapixel DCS 560, which initially had

1804-485: Was revealed in 2015 and reported to be launched in 2020. In 2018, Canon launched a 120MP image sensor as a part of its latest BtoB offerings. For many years, Canon was the principal maker of the print engines found in industry-standard laser printers. The first models of Apple LaserWriter and the equivalent products made by HP used the Canon LBP-CX engine. The next models (LaserWriter II series, LaserJet II series) used

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1848-405: Was sold to Platinum Equity in 2012. This image sensor company operated under the name Truesense and was later acquired by ON Semiconductor in 2014. On Semiconductor began closing the former Kodak CCD manufacturing facility in 2019. All models based on Nikon body and use Nikon's F mount . All models use Canon 's EF lens mount . Steven Sasson Steven J. Sasson (born July 4, 1950)

1892-526: Was the 1964 Canola 130. It had 13 digits, a result of marketing research. The reason for the odd number of figures was based on selling it to the Japanese central bank. Given the low value of the Japanese Yen, 13 digits was a requirement of the banks. The calculator was built by germanium transistors and the display was a light pipe which gave an odd format. Canon produces a range of projectors. Canon offers

1936-570: Was the first hand-held digital camera. Earlier examples of digital cameras included the Multi Spectral Scanner on Landsat 1, which took digital photographs of Yosemite before it was launched in 1972, as well as cameras used for astronomical photography, experimental devices by Michael Francis Tompsett et al. , and the commercial product and hobbyist camera called the Cromemco Cyclops . His work on digital cameras began in 1975 with

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