From input to output devices and still to dynamic images, Canon is pursuing cross-media imaging-advanced synergies between imaging products- to enable consumers to realistically express their ideas and thoughts at will. While fostering new possibilities in business and culture, this endeavor expands Canon's involvment in printing, medicine, and the arts.

In pursuit of next-generation highquality flat-panel displays, Canon is researching and developing both largescreen SEDs with the same high image quality as conventional CRT monitors, and low-energy OLED displays for mobile devices, with preparations for mass production under way.

This imaging technology uses optics and image recognition technologies to achieve a greater sense of "vision" than human beings. Currently used in systems to detect component defects the human eye cannot discern, this technology is expected to debut in monitoring systems for people and activities in the future.

Nano-technology manipulates matter and light on the order of nanometers- no more than a few dozen atoms. Canon researches orderly arrays of nano-structural materials and molecular imaging to discover the possibilities of the "nano world," where properties of matter and time are completely different from what we know.

Kyuanos, Canon's high-accuracy color management system, precisely matches colors among input and output devices, which have varying ranges of color expression. Not only does Kyuanos faithfully reproduce color, it automatically compensates for variances in color appearance due to lighting and other factors.

Key components, such as digital camera CMOS sensors and DIGIC imaging processors, as well as office network MFD iR controllers, are the key to competition in digital imaging products. Canon applies the technologies and expertise it has cultivated in its commitment to develop these key components.

Canon uses 3D computer-aided design (CAD) to develop products. Besides being able to confirm positional relationships of components from all angles, CAD supports Canon innovation through simulated function and performance evaluations and the sharing of data between company divisions.

By linking its development and production divisions, Canon promotes concurrent processes to ensure cooperation from initial conception stages. Early-stage consideration of production processes and the identification of potential problem areas have significantly reduced the time and cost of mass producing new products.