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Consumer Business
Technology Solution
More and more people are using smartphones and tablets to consume content via touch panel operations. With these mobile
devices becoming an integral part of people’s daily lives, they will soon be used for capturing, shaping and sharing content or
ideas. The age of digital stationery is coming our way. In addition to offering stylus products in this segment, we also launched
the Bamboo Spark in autumn 2015, which digitizes handwritten memos, allowing them to be edited or shared with high usability.
We also began offering our Wacom Cloud service, which enables people to quickly share ideas jotted down with digital pens.
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The evolution of computers and network infrastructure
has accelerated the digitization of documents (paperless
operations) in numerous fields. Digitization makes pos-
sible a wide range of applications, including corporate
document management, product demonstration and
credit card signing in stores, contract signing at banks,
and electronic chart notation in clinics and hotel check-
in kiosks. High-level security is indispensable for the ap-
propriate management of digitized documents. Wacom’s
LCD signature tablets play a key role in connecting cus-
tomers and computer systems in different business situ-
ations. With the Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics taking
place in 2020, demand from hotels is rising. As electronic
commerce spreads further and education infrastructure
goes digital, we believe there is huge potential in this
business..
By using our many years of accumulated experience in pen
tablet development to optimize our pen input and multi-touch
technologiest, we have been providing our OEM customers with
pen and multi-touch input components for many types of mobile
devices operating on Android and Windows.
Reflecting the increasing importance of the stylus as the
primary input interface to creatively and productively ma-
nipulate smartphones and tablets, Wacom is taking the
lead in collaborating with industry partners by providing
technology solutions consisting of a wide variety of pen
and touch expertise. Our Universal Pen Framework initia-
tive to promote wider digital pen interoperability is also
making a steady progress.
ECAD is a series of computer aided design (CAD) applications used in areas such as factory automation,
mechatronics, robotics and industry equipment. ECAD leverages Wacom’s 30 years of expertise to sup-
port thousands of industry customers in solving their critical design challenges from the design and devel-
opment stage through to production.
Business Solution
Engineering Solution
Other Business
Technology Solution Business
Creativity flourishes from sharing and collaborating with others. Wacom is ideally
positioned to provide customers with values that transcend hardware. This includes
our WILL (Wacom Ink Layer Language) technology, which has been derived from
user interface technology assets accumulated over the past 30 years, as well as our
Wacom Cloud service and other relevant applications.
Platform & Applications
STU-530
Sensor Board + Controller IC
for EMR type
Touch panel + Controller IC Digital pen
Selectable from types of EMR, Active ES,
and Passive ES for a variety of devices
DTK-2241
Wacom® feel IT technologies
is Wacom’s unique user interface solution to
realize handwritten input with digital pen through
a natural, intuitive multi-touch operation.
DTU-1141
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