- Headquarters
- Tokyo, Japan · East Asia
- Value chain
- Hardware & devices(Products); also Equipment & machinery
- What that means
- Makes physical products under its own name: computers, robots, vehicles, aircraft, drones, satellites, batteries, solar modules, reactors and medical devices.
- Founded
- 1937
- Ownership
- Listed
- Listing
- TSE:7751 on Google Finance
- Website
- global.medical.canon
- Relevance
- High at its strongest, in Advanced Imaging & Photonic Sensing
Tokyo, JapanIn 3 capabilities
Each capability the company is listed in, most relevant first: how experts in the field see its global relevance there, why it is listed and the source.
Sensing, Timing & Navigation · Manufacture · listed #7 of 50
Canon designs and makes its own CMOS and SPAD image sensors, optics and imaging systems, and it is the third-largest international patent applicant in this capability.
Relevance: Major designer of CMOS and SPAD sensors and imaging systems
Biotechnology & Health Technologies · Manufacture · listed #30 of 50
Canon Medical Systems makes the Cartesion Prime digital PET/CT and is a leading patent applicant in nuclear imaging.
Relevance: PET/CT and SPECT system maker
Semiconductors & Advanced Computing · Equipment & materials · listed #32 of 50
Supplies i-line/KrF steppers and the FPA-1200NZ2C nanoimprint lithography system, an alternative patterning route to 5nm-class features.
Relevance: Mature-node lithography and nanoimprint supplier