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34
(1) Business Technologies
The Group has particularly high market shares in the color MFP and color LBP
domains, and going forward it will continue promoting technologies and product
development to further solidify its business base.
Priority Areas
1) Shared firmware:
Establish a broadly based lineup of low-speed to high-speed products.
2) Color image processing technology:
Achieve high image quality
3) Polymerized toner:
Achieve the industry’s most advanced toner in terms of small diameter and
uniformity, and achieve high resolution and image quality at a low cost
4) High speed printing technologies:
Achieve printing speeds and processing capacity on par with printing equipment,
develop the ability to provide diverse finishing capability up to final binding and
build an on-demand printing system that can respond to the varied demands of
the printing business
5) Network solution technologies:
Achieve the ability to provide customers with abundant functionality, including
optimized work flow, networking, security and verification.
(2) Optics
In Optics, the Group’s products in the optical lens field are already highly respected
in the market place, and concentrated efforts are under-way to acquire patents in
order to establish greater patent superiority, thereby contributing to the business by
providing greater stability. In the DVD/CD compatible pickup lens area, the Group
has many domestic and overseas patents covering the main technologies, including
patents for diffraction-type object pickup lenses that can record and play back two
types of optical disks. In addition, the Group is also emphasizing the accumulation of
patent applications for next-generation blue laser pickup lenses where future expecta-
tions are high.
(3) Medical and Graphic Imaging
In the medical field, the emphasis is on patent applications for key items of future
medical systems such as digital image input/output equipment and network systems
as a means of maintaining patent superiority and contributing to the business.
In the CTP printing plate field, we are actively applying for patents with an eye on
market expansion.
Moreover, we have emphasized overseas patent applications over the past several
years in response to the overseas development of the business.
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Firmware
Color Image Processing
Technology
Polymerized Toner
High Speed Printing
Technology
Network Solutions
Technology
02 03 05 06
0
300
600
900
Cumulative Disclosed
Japanese Patents in
Key Areas
(Number of patents)
(From the fiscal year ended March, 2002)
0402 03 05 06
0
100
200
300
Cumulative Disclosed
Japanese Patents in
Optical Pickup Lenses
Including Next-Generation
Pickup Lensess
(Number of patents)
(From the fiscal year ended March, 2002)
Trend in Disclosed
Japanese Patents in
the Medical Fields
(Number of patents)
(From the fiscal year ended March, 2002)
0402 03 05 06
0
50
100
150