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Industrial Instruments - Measurement Technology - Advanced
To maintain and improve the quality of their products, industries demand highly precise sensing technologies. To meet those demands, Konica Minolta supports industries-including entertainment and medical industries-with sensing and image processing technologies for such diverse fields as light, colour, temperature, display, 3D digitisation and medical support.
Based on its accumulated technologies related to cameras and photographic light meters, Konica Minolta has energetically moved to develop a wide variety of innovative radiometric instruments for measuring light, colour and temperature. Currently, the company markets more than 70 measuring instruments in five categories. Aiming to develop equipment that is more compact and precise as well as easy to operate,
Konica Minolta has created many products that have led to the establishment of new standards for the measuring instrument industry. Konica Minolta manufactures measuring instruments under strict quality assurance systems that ensure its products conform with Japan Industrial Standards, Germany's DIN standards and its own rigorous quality standards. Konica Minolta has been selected by Japan's Ministry of International Trade and Industry to inspect the accuracy of light and temperature measuring equipment used by domestic companies.
3-D Scanning
Konica Minolta's approach to camera development has resulted in products that have been widely acclaimed in Japan and elsewhere. Konica Minolta's VIVID 910 non-contact 3-D digitizer has become the scanner of choice in a wide range of industries and is now a fixture in the entertainment field, where it is used primarily for game software development and computer graphics production. In addition, it is highly popular in the research field, e.g. in medicine, architecture and archelogy. Other fields in which the VIVID 910 has become indispensable include education and art, where it is used in universities as well as museums and art galleries, structural and industrial design. The growing use of 3-D CAD systems by manufacturers and of 3-D computer graphics by the movie industry has spurred rising market needs for 3-D shape-input devices.
Medical and Graphic Imaging
Konica Minolta Medical & Graphic produces X-ray film and processing equipment along with image input/output devices, contrast media, medical supplies and a wide range of other products for the medical field. In the graphic field as well, we employ unique technologies to provide state-of-the-art products that include plate-making film and imaging input/output proofing systems. In the future we will direct our efforts at developing systems and software with digital and network features.
Konica Minolta Planetariums - Image the Universe
In 1958, Konica Minolta introduced its first-ever planetarium, the first such product manufactured in Japan. In 1984, after considerable investment in R&D, the company launched the Infinium - the world's first single-sphere planetarium utilising the lens-projection method. In 1994, Konica Minolta concluded arrangements for co-operation with the developer and marketer of the Digistar hardware system, which is capable of projecting computer graphics and other images onto the full depth and circumference of planetarium domes.
As a result, Konica Minolta became the exclusive marketer in Japan of the Geministar system, which enables the integration of conventional planetariums with Digistar equipment. The Geministar system was highly rated when exhibited at an international convention of planetarium specialists, and it is expected that many of its features will be incorporated into future generations of planetariums. In 1996, Konica Minolta obtained exclusive marketing rights in Japan for the Laserscan - a laser projection system developed in the United States that is the world's first such system capable of projecting images onto the full depth and circumference of planetarium domes.
This move enables Konica Minolta to better respond to the needs of planetarium operators throughout Japan, who are increasingly interested in making use of full-dome movies, computer graphics, video projections, and multimedia strategies. The Laserscan is expected to open new markets for diverse planetarium shows as well as entertainment applications. Konica Minolta has been actively engaged in the co-operative development of software incorporating computer images of various kinds of space phenomena, such as those related to the 1994 collision between comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 and Jupiter, with the goal of making the planetarium experience ever more realistic and enjoyable. In addition to its Japanese operations, Konica Minolta has begun expanding its marketing activities in the rest of Asia.
Opto-Devices & Components - Optical Technology
The technologies that support the visual information industry are constantly being refined. In addition, the application range of optical technologies is expanding in tandem with the progress of the information society. With its advanced optical technologies Konica Minolta is contributing significantly to advances in this field by creating unique, value-added optical devices and components and applying them to a wide variety of products such as laptops or DVD players.