- Noriyuki Kaifu
Functional device design
- [Major achievements] Design and practical application of contact image sensors and large-format area panels for amorphous silicon devices.
- Motokazu Kashida
Digital video signal processing
- [Major achievements] Development and practical application of digital video signal processing technology including error correction algorithms.
- Hirokatsu Miyata
Composite materials, nanostructured materials
- [Major achievements] Application of liquid crystals alignment control technology to the control of the structure of self-assembling nanomaterials - especially, macroscopic alignment control of the pores in mesoporous films, and the use of regularly aligned nanospaces to control the alignment of guest species.
- Mahito Negishi
Precision engineering technology
- [Major achievements] Development of large on-machine form measurement and processing machine (CSSP1), free-form optical element form measurement machine (A-Ruler), ultra-high-precision aspherical element measurement machine (A-Ruler2H), integrated processing and measurement software system (CANOPS), etc.
- Ichiro Okumura
Ultrasonic motor technology
- [Major achievements] Development and establishment of mass production technology of ultrasonic motors. Development of pencil- and button-type ultrasonic motors at low-cost.
- Hidefumi Osawa
Image compression and processing technology
- [Major achievements] Research and development on compression encoding technology for still images and video, development of image compression technology for digital color copying machines, MFPs and printer controllers as applications of international standard technologies such as JBIG and JPEG in products.
- Hayao Ozu
LSI design technology
- [Major achievements] Development and practical application of "BASIS" image sensors incorporated in SLR cameras, copiers and scanners, and color still images encoding modules used in digital cameras and network digital MFPs.
- Nobuatsu Sasanuma
Image processing and image control technology
- [Major achievements] Presentation and development of foundation technology for boosting color copying machine image reproducibility and stability, and development of such specific control technologies as SALT, PASCAL and ARCDAT for stabilizing gradation and color.
- Hiroyuki Yamamoto
MR technology
- [Major achievements] Development of MR technology for Integrated MR design system to realize application of digital prototyping. Improvement of 3D images processing and recognition technology.
- Shinichi Yamashita
Digital video system and LSI design
- [Major achievements] Research and development of digital VTR technology, development of the "VIC," "VIC2" and "VIC3" recorder signal processing LSIs used in digital video camcorders, development of digital video signal processing chipsets, etc.
- Takao Yonehara
Semiconductor materials, device technology
- [Major achievements] R&D and commercialization activities related to novel semiconductor properties, and device performance enhancement, including ultra-high vacuum, low-temperature polycrystalline silicon thin film process (Si-MBE), growth of germanium thin films on artificial lattices (Graphoepitaxy), silicon thin film transistors with precisely controlled grain nucleation (SENTAXY), and high-quality SOI wafer production using porous silicon (ELTRAN).
