Canon Inc.

Canon Inc. (キヤノン株式会社code: ja is deprecated , Kyanon Kabushiki Gaisha, TYO: 7751, NYSE: CAJ) is a Japanese company that makes imaging and optical products. These include cameras, film, image scanners and computer printers. The company was started in 1937.

Canon Inc.
(キヤノン株式会社)

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Type	Public (TYO: 7751, NYSE: CAJ)
Industry	Imaging
Founded	Tokyo, Japan (10 August 1937)
Headquarters	Ōta, Tokyo , Japan
Key people	Fujio Mitarai, Chairman & CEO Tsuneji Uchida, President & COO
Products	Print and document solutions, photographic equipment including printers, scanners and digital and SLR cameras. Binoculars, calculators and medical, optical, broadcast and IT imaging equipment.
Revenue	Increase 4,481,346 million Yen (FY 2007)
Number of employees	23,429 (2008)
Website	www.canon.com

History

Canon began as the Precision Optical Instruments Laboratory. In 1934, the first Japanese 35mm focal plane-shutter camera prototype was made. It was called the "Kwanon". In the next few years, Canon became very important in creating new camera products and making them better.

Today, Canon creates everything from digital cameras and camcorders to laser printers and film.

Name origins

The name Canon came from the company's first prototype 35 mm camera "kwanon" but then change it. When the Company sought to begin full-scale marketing, it needed a brand name that would be accepted by people worldwide. From this standpoint, in 1935 the name Canon was registered as the official trademark. The word Canon has a number of meanings, including scriptures, criterion and standard

Locations

Canon is now an international company. Canon has buildings in the Americas, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, Asia, and the South Seas.

Canon Inc. Media

• Canon FTb with 50mm F-1.8 lens.jpg

  Canon FTb, introduced in 1971

• 35mm Camera II.JPG

  AE-1 Film Camera. AE stood for Automatic Exposure.

• Williams FW14 front-right 2017 Williams Conference Centre.jpg

  Canon sponsored Williams FW14.

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  A logo from 1934 depicting Bodhisattva Kwan'on

• Kwanon camera (replica) with the Kasyapa lens

• Hansa Canon front-top 2016 Canon Plaza S.jpg

  Hansa Canon with the Nikkor 50mm f/3.5 lens

• Canon 7 with 50mm f0.95 IMG 0374.JPG

  Canon 7 with the Canon 50mm f/0.95 lens

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  Canon pellix w/FL 35mmF3.5

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  Canon F-1 SLR camera