| IEEE Masaru Ibuka Consumer Electronics Award | |
|---|---|
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| Awarded for | outstanding contributions toconsumer electronics technology. |
| Sponsored by | Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers |
| Country | USA |
| First award | 1987 |
| Website | IEEE Masaru Ibuka Consumer Electronics Award |
TheIEEE Masaru Ibuka Consumer Electronics Award is aTechnical Field Award of theIEEE given for outstanding contributions toconsumer electronics technology. It is named in honor ofMasaru Ibuka, co-founder and honorary chairman ofSony Corporation. The award is currently given each year to an individual or a team of up to three people (although in 2002, it was given to five people). The award was established by the IEEE Board of Directors in 1987, and is sponsored by Sony Corporation. The award is usually given in an awards ceremony at CES / IEEE ICCE in Las Vegas near the beginning of the year it is awarded.[1]
Recipients of this award receive a bronze medal, a certificate, and an honorarium. The exact dimensions of the certificate are 11 by 14 inches (approx. ___ cm or mm) and comes in a folder measuring approximately 11.5 by 23.5 inches (approx. __ cm or mm) and is approximately 3/4 of an inch (approx. 19mm) thick when closed. It is signed by the IEEE Secretary and the IEEE President.[2]
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| Year | Citation | Recipient(s) |
|---|---|---|
| 1989 | for development of thecompact disc system | Heitaro Nakajima (Sony) |
| Johannes Petrus Sinjou (Philips) | ||
| 1990 | for development of theautofocus camera | Norman L. Stauffer |
| 1991 | for contributions to the development of thecharge-coupled deviceimage sensors in consumervideo cameras | Gilbert F. Amelio |
| 1992 | for demonstrating technical feasibility of large size color LCD displays suitable for consumer TV applications | Isamu Washizuka (Sharp) |
| 1993 | for contributions to consumer electronics products employingsynthetic speech for education and entertainment | George L. Brantingham (TI) |
| Paul S. Breedlove (CompuAdd) | ||
| Richard H. Wiggins (TI) | ||
| 1994 | for contributions to FM stereophonic and television multichannel sound broadcasting systems | Carl G. Eilers (Zenith) |
| 1995 | for theReed-Solomon codes | Irving S. Reed |
| Gustave Solomon | ||
| 1996 | for contributions to consumer digital audio and video recording products | Kees A. Schouhamer Immink (Philips) |
| 1997 | for contributions to the development of audio noise reduction and surround sound systems | Ray M. Dolby (Dolby) |
| 1998 | for engineering leadership in the development of digital television for broadcast, cable and satellite applications | Jerrold A. Heller |
| 1999 | for technical leadership in the development of theMPEG international standards for motion video and audio | Leonardo Chiariglione |
| 2000 | for contributions to the development of low-light level, solid-state imagers used in consumer products | Marvin H. White |
| 2001 | for leadership in the development ofdigital video broadcast | Ulrich Reimers |
| 2002 | for pioneering contributions to the research and development ofHDTV | Takashi Fujio |
| Kozo Hayashi | ||
| Masao Sugimoto | ||
| Masahiko Morizono | ||
| Yuichi Ninomiya | ||
| 2003 | for contributions to the synthesis and analysis of loudspeakers (Thiele/Small parameters) | Richard H. Small |
| Neville Thiele | ||
| 2004 | for major contributions toMP3 audio coding | Karlheinz Brandenburg |
| 2005 | No award | |
| 2006[4] | Vestigial sideband | Wayne Bretl (Zenith) |
| Richard Citta | ||
| Wayne Luplow (Zenith) | ||
| 2007 | for contributions in audio and cinema multichannel playback systems (THX) | Tomlinson Holman |
| 2008 | for development of homeinteractive video games and other toys | Ralph H. Baer |
| 2009 | inventor of thefirst wireless remote control | Eugene J. Polley (Zenith) |
| 2010 | for contributions to the development and commercialization ofdigital video recorders | James Barton (TiVo) |
| 2011 | for contributions toimage compression in printing technology and digital image processing | Joan Laverne Mitchell (Ricoh) |
| 2012 | for leadership and technical contributions toH.264/MPEG-4 AVC | Gisle Bjøntegaard (Tandberg) |
| Gary J. Sullivan (Microsoft) | ||
| Thomas Wiegand (Fraunhofer) | ||
| 2013 | for the development and marketing ofspectral band replication atCoding Technologies (now part ofDolby Laboratories) | Lars Liljeryd |
| Kristofer Kjörling | ||
| Martin Dietz | ||
| 2014 | No award | |
| 2015 | inventor of themobile phone | Martin Cooper |
| 2016 | for designing and building the firstdigital still camera[5] | Steven Sasson |
| 2017 | for pioneering contributions to high-speedWireless LAN technology | John O'Sullivan |
| David Skellern | ||
| Terence Percival | ||
| 2018 | for his leadership of the development and proliferation ofLinux | Linus Torvalds |
| 2019 | for accelerating the replacement of 100-year-old analog film technologies used in cinema and television by providing extremely high visual quality using digital-imaging solution | Tomonori Aoyama |
| Takashi Hayasaka | ||
| 2020 | for creating an inexpensive single-board computer and surrounding ecosystem for education and consumer applications (Raspberry Pi) | Eben C. Upton (Raspberry Pi Foundation) |
| 2021 | for pioneering the design of consumer-friendly personal computers. | Steve Wozniak |
| 2022 | for contributions to the development of image sensors with integrated color filter arrays for digital video and still cameras | Peter Dillon andAlbert Brault |
| 2023 | for leadership in creating open and free operating systems for embedded computers in consumer electronics. | Ken Sakamura |
| 2024 | for the design of the 32-bit ARM RISC microprocessor | Steve Furber andSophie Wilson |
| 2025 | for contributions to the advancement of wearable computing and high dynamic range imaging. | Steve Mann |