CANON HELPS TO USHER IN A NEW COLLABORATIVE VISION AT CES® 2022

Impressed by a Collective Future, The Firm’s ‘TogetherNext’ Theme Showcases How its Applied sciences make connecting with Individuals, Cultures, and the World round us, extra thrilling than ever

Actor and Producer Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Firm HitRecord – Producers of the Animated collection ‘Wolfboy and the Every thing Manufacturing facility’ — will use one in all Canon U.S.A.’s Newest Applied sciences in Growth, the AMLOS (Activate My Line of Sight) System to Nearly Host Writers’ Room as they create a brand new unique quick film1

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MELVILLE, N.Y., Jan. 3, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — Canon U.S.A., Inc., a pacesetter in digital imaging options, has constantly redefined limits and at CES 2022, the corporate will showcase new collaborative visions via its revolutionary applied sciences (Sales space #15086). With the launch of the theme ‘TogetherNext,’ Canon will unveil new interactive digital experiences via 4 cornerstones to indicate how its options make connecting with folks, cultures and the world round us extra thrilling than ever earlier than. Canon can also be teaming up with actor and producer Joseph Gordon-Levitt and his firm, HitRecord, to indicate first-hand how Canon’s new hybrid collaboration expertise in growth may also help them create via a digital, real-time writers’ room expertise.

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“2021 was a 12 months of defining the brand new regular for work and private interplay. As an organization centered on innovation, we, too, needed to rework our enterprise mannequin and combine new applied sciences that befit the world of right now and tomorrow on a collective degree.” mentioned Kazuto Ogawa, president and CEO, Canon U.S.A., Inc. “Impressed by collaboration, we’re poised to usher in new options that concentrate on serving to folks, cultures and the world join and thrive now and into the longer term, and we’re proud to showcase them at this 12 months’s CES 2022.”

The company philosophy of Kyosei, the precept outlined as “all folks, no matter race, faith, or tradition, harmoniously dwelling and dealing collectively into the longer term for the nice of society,” is threaded via all of Canon’s applied sciences, companies and other people. CES 2022 is a showcase of what has come from the brand new regular of hybrid work environments together with a way of desirous to be collectively. With Kyosei because the driving power, Canon’s immersive expertise and 4 cornerstones at CES 2022 educates attendees on how the corporate seems to contribute to society and have a constructive impression.

Create Along with Canon
In 2021, many elements of the world adopted the brand new regular of hybrid and distant work environments in a method or one other. Canon, with the creation of software program instruments, such because the AMLOS (Activate My Line of Sight) System (with is presently in growth)¹, is trying to assist redefine how we see, interact and work together. In step with the three phrases of single, easy, and seamless, AMLOS is being designed to make use of

a single digicam enabling a number of sights, easy operation via gesture management (for in workplace members), and seamless connectivity with software program corresponding to Microsoft Groups.

This hybrid working system is being designed to allow in-office presenters to information the main focus of the digicam utilizing easy gestures and share digitally enhanced, high-resolution pictures from the room with distant collaborators who can customise their view of the assembly, specializing in the speaker, the whiteboard, a display or a prop within the room that the presenter focuses on.

It is a system that’s trying to really give creativity and collaboration freedom to roam. Canon is teaming up with actor, producer and HitRecord founder Joseph Gordon-Levitt to showcase the AMLOS system in motion throughout a digital, actual time writers’ room.

HitRecord is all about opening up the artistic course of and making it as accessible as doable. So to showcase how the AMLOS answer works, some CES attendees will see a digital writers’ room (from HitRecord’s places of work and different places) as founder Joseph Gordon-Levitt in addition to Emmy Award^®-winning writers and creators of the animated collection ‘Wolfboy and the Every thing Manufacturing facility,’ Edward Jessy and Toff Mazery, create a brand new unique quick movie.

Over the 4 days of CES, Joseph Gordon-Levitt and the HitRecord workforce will just about take part and use the AMLOS System to brainstorm movie ideas, create characters and develop storyboards, leading to an animated quick movie to be produced and launched within the weeks following CES.

Be Along with Canon
CES attendees shall be among the many first to check out the all-new Kokomo software program by Canon (presently in growth)¹; an innovation in digital actuality that mixes the 3D expertise of lovely and life-like VR locations with video calling. Guests will be capable to enter a real-time “ImmersiveCall,” with a Canon model ambassador who’ll inform all of them about this thrilling new manner of connecting.

On the coronary heart of Kokomo, is a Actual “Collectively” Expertise, which has helped to form the event of the expertise. The aim of the expertise is to supply folks the chance to have actual interactions after they get collectively, to allow them to have memorable experiences in a brand-new manner.

The Kokomo software program makes use of Canon cameras and imaging expertise to create practical representations of customers, so digital actuality calls really feel like you might be interacting face-to-face reasonably than via a display or an avatar. So, even when folks cannot “be there” with the folks they love, they’ll really feel like they’re there. And that is only the start. Canon will quickly be asserting the official launch date of Kokomo and has thrilling plans so as to add new locations, functionalities, and options to the Kokomo software program, together with expanded compatibility with Canon cameras and lenses, together with the current Canon RF 5.2mm f/2.8L Twin Fisheye Lens, additionally being showcased at CES.

Admire Along with Canon
At CES, attendees can have the chance to marvel at an historic piece of Japanese artwork because of a joint venture organized by the Kyoto Tradition Affiliation (NPO) and co-sponsored and promoted by Canon. The Cultural Heritage Inheritance Challenge is a social contribution initiative with the aim of preserving unique cultural belongings by creating high-resolution facsimiles of Japanese artwork. Combining Canon’s technical experience in imaging, processing and output with the grasp craftsmanship of conventional Kyoto artisans, the Challenge produces and donates high-resolution facsimiles of such celebrated historic Japanese cultural belongings as folding screens, sliding doorways and illustrated scrolls to the house owners of the unique items throughout Japan and the temples, shrines, and native authorities that held the items earlier than they have been despatched abroad. The digicam and gear used within the course of of making the high-resolution facsimiles being showcased at CES 2022 contains an EOS R5 full-frame digital interchangeable-lens digicam, Speedlite EL-1 flash unit and imagePROGRAF PRO-4100 giant format printer.

Attendees of CES can have the chance to see a high-resolution facsimile of “The Wind and Thunder Gods” by famend painter Tawaraya Sotatsu. This delicate, but grand work is saved underneath strict climate-controlled circumstances. At the moment, The Wind and Thunder Gods, replicated via Canon expertise within the highest degree of element that celebrates the unique work, can encourage new generations.

Expertise Along with Canon
CES attendees can be a part of one in all New York’s coolest wheelie crews as they hit numerous places all through Brooklyn, because of the footage captured on the Canon EOS R5 full-frame mirrorless digicam together with the brand new Canon RF5.2MM F2.8 L Twin Fisheye Lens. The brand new RF5.2mm F2.8 L Twin Fisheye Lens brings stereoscopic 3D digital actuality (VR) seize* to the EOS R5 digicam as a part of the EOS VR System. Because the world’s first digital interchangeable twin fisheye lens able to capturing stereoscopic 3D 180° VR imagery to a single picture sensor**, the complexities of digital actuality manufacturing and the flexibility to view the content material in full capability are enormously streamlined for seasoned professionals and newcomers to the craft.

With a purpose to really expertise the content material captured by this method in its truest kind, a suitable VR headset is really helpful to be used, such because the Oculus Quest 2, which permits viewers to immerse themselves within the content material — by merely shifting their head to supply a vivid, extremely huge view.

Study extra on the in-person Canon press convention held on January 4^th from 1-2 p.m. PST on the Mandalay Bay Conference Heart, Room D and please observe Canon all through the present on Instagram at @CanonUSA and Twitter at @CanonUSAimaging. Use #CanonCES2022 to hitch the dialog and go to our web site at www.usa.canon.com.

About Canon U.S.A., Inc.
Canon U.S.A., Inc., is a number one supplier of client, business-to-business, and industrial digital imaging options to the US and to Latin America and the Caribbean markets. With roughly $30.4 billion in world income, its dad or mum firm, Canon Inc. (NYSE:CAJ), ranks third total in U.S. patents granted in 2020^† and is one in all Fortune Journal’s World’s Most Admired Firms in 2020. Canon U.S.A. was chosen as a Most Cherished Office on Newsweek’s listing for 2021, rating among the many prime 100 firms for worker happiness and satisfaction at work. Canon U.S.A. is devoted to its Kyosei philosophy of social and environmental accountability. To maintain apprised of the most recent information from Canon U.S.A., join the Firm’s RSS information feed by visiting www.usa.canon.com/rss and observe us on Twitter @CanonUSA.

†Primarily based on weekly patent counts issued by United States Patent and Trademark Workplace.

¹Not a proposal on the market. Canon U.S.A. is presently creating the AMLOS and Kokomo options. Please observe that the AMLOS and Kokomo options aren’t obtainable on the market or use within the U.S. or elsewhere. Specs and options could change and no assurances may be provided that these options, within the present or some other kind, shall be made obtainable on the market or use within the U.S. or elsewhere.

* When paired with the Canon EOS R5 digicam geared up with an upcoming firmware replace model 1.5.0 or later, and with use of Canon’s EOS VR Utility or EOS VR Plug-in for Adobe Premiere Professional paid subscription-based software program options (each presently in growth – availability and particulars to observe on or about early 2022. Viewing in 3D requires a suitable Head Mount Show.

** As of October 5, 2021, amongst all lenses for digital interchangeable lens cameras (primarily based on Canon analysis). Have to be paired with the Canon EOS R5 digicam geared up with firmware replace model 1.5.0 or later and make the most of Canon EOS VR Software program answer(s) (paid subscription).