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AWARDS AND PRIZES
Commendation for Science and Technology by Japan’s
Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and
Technology with Prizes for Science and Technology, and
the 60th Okochi Memorial Technology Award of Japan
Five members of the Fujitsu Group were honored by Japan’s Minister
of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, who awarded
them with Fiscal 2014 Commendations for Science and Technology
with Prizes for Science and Technology (Development Category), for
the “Development of Volume Production Technology for High-
Density Ferroelectric Random Access Memory (FRAM).” Five
members of the Fujitsu Group were also awarded the 60th Okochi
Memorial Technology Award of Japan, and were recognized for their
development of technology to suppress ferroelectric deterioration
during semiconductor manufacturing processes, which resulted in
realization of the world’s first volume production of Ferroelectric
Random Access Memory (FRAM).
Contribution Prize in the 46th Ichimura Industrial
Awards of Japan
Three members of the Fujitsu Group were awarded the
Contribution Prize for the “Application of a Wraparound-View 3D
Monitor Technology for Driver Safety and Peace of Mind” at the
46th Ichimura Industrial Awards of Japan, sponsored by the New
Technology Development Foundation, Japan. Using 3D graphics
processing technology, this innovative approach leverages video
from four vehicle-mounted cameras to give drivers a wide-area,
360-degree omniview both immediately around and beyond their
vehicles. Fujitsu was recognized for commercialization of this
wraparound-view 3D monitor technology, which integrates video
from different angles for an all-inclusive 3D display, flexibly giving
drivers a smooth and expansive field of vision.
With an eye toward the future of the Fujitsu Group, and to enhance
resource shifts in response to changes in its business portfolio, Fujitsu
has classified its framework for advanced R&D into the following
three categories, and will employ a top-down approach to setting
research themes and conduct strategic research investment.
Advanced R&D Strategic Direction in Fiscal 2014 (April 2014 –March 2015)
Dimensions to Generate Innovation
Four Research Domains
Striving toward the realization of the Fujitsu Group’s vision of a
“Human Centric Intelligent Society,” we have set out three dimen-
sions of the Fujitsu Technology and Service Vision, and four
corresponding research domains with which they share a
common foundation, to drive cutting-edge Fujitsu technologies
to generate innovation.
1. Research for Near-Term Commercialization Themes:
Research directly linked to business with a clearly-defined
commercialization plan
2. Advanced Research Themes: Research that will create new
business, or expand or enhance the competitiveness of
existing business
3. Seeds-Oriented Research Themes: Revolutionary innova-
tive technologies driven by our research laboratories’
perceptions
Advanced device technologies, hardware, and software manufacture tech-
nologies to support the Fujitsu Group’s product manufacturing
Manufacturing Innovation
Service platform technologies connecting front-end users and services; media
processing and sensing technologies that enhance service value; device
platform technologies such as for wearable devices and sensors
Ubiquitous Innovation
Hyper-scale technologies to rapidly and flexibly accommodate projects
ranging from small to ultra-large-scale; proactive platform technologies to
preemptively support forecasted outcomes; software control technologies
enabling external remote control
ICT Innovation
Knowledge platform technologies enabling linkage and leverage of heteroge-
neous information of companies, public institutions, individuals, and sensors;
security and big data-related technologies supporting social solutions
Social Innovation
Human Empowerment
Creative Intelligence
Connected Infrastructure
Common Foundation
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