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RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT
Aiming to Contribute to Society through the Development
of Advanced Technology
The OKI Group actively develops and introduces cutting-edge technologies with the aim of creating prod-
ucts that contribute to the advancement of today’s information society. Our research and development
activities focus on the three core fields of mechatronics, info-telecom, and human media.
The field of mechatronics comprises technologies that support OKI’s mainstay prod-
ucts, including ATMs, cash handling equipment, and printers, and is one in which
OKI has acquired technologies over many years. We constantly improve existing
technologies used for ATMs and other cash handling equipment. We employ mag-
netic, optical, and other technologies appropriate for each medium to develop
high-speed and high-precision sensing technologies, which we then use for various
practical applications, such as recognizing various banknotes. In order to produce
compact, high-resolution printers with low power consumption, OKI is currently
developing new-generation LED printheads that integrate LEDs, optical systems, and
control chips. This technology can be channeled into a wide range of applications for
LEDs, and has exciting potential in the area of cutting-edge displays. OKI also works
on enhancing basic printer functions, such as improving mechanical precision and
print quality.
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Mechatronics
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Info-telecom
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Human Media
Today, when the adoption of optical broadband is spreading globally, low power
consumption is becoming an increasingly important requirement for optical broad-
band devices. We draw on silicon photonics and other advanced technologies to
develop a power-saving home optical broadband device based on OKI’s proprietary
architectures and an ultrasmall optical broadband terminal that can be adopted by all
kinds of terminal equipment.
OKI also aims to build network environments through convergence with wireless
networks. At the same time, we are developing new algorithms that estimate, moni-
tor, and control content sent via networks to meet demand for higher quality and
more reliable network services.
In the area of human communication, advances in network environments have
enabled remote communication that transcends geographical constraints. OKI seeks
to realize ultra-realistic communication that enables people in faraway offices or
classrooms to interact with one another so that they feel as if they are actually some-
where else. To this end, OKI conducts research on the transmission of information
that creates such “atmosphere” by combining the separation of specific sources of
sound, video, and other contextual information, as well as research on ergonomic
evaluation of it.