Ikegami Electronics Asia Pacific Pte. Ltd.

Kosei Saito founded Ikegami Tsushinki Seisakusho in Ohta-ku, Tokyo to manufacture transformers, choke coils and power supply components.

The company was incorporated.

Developed Automatic Frequency Response Recorder and contributed to development of audio equipment in Japan as first component equipment.

Company name changed to Ikegami Tsushinki Co., Ltd. Began manufacturing and selling TV studio related equipment.

Developed Monoscope Camera to supply all domestic TV receiver manufacturers as first domestic model of TV transmitter.

Developed Flying Spot Scanner.

Kawasaki Factory established.

Mito Factory established. Developed “TK-31T” transistorized TV camera (1st model) to establish self as full-fleded TV camera manufacturer. Organized TV Satellite equipment in various Japanese towns, contributed to dissolve difficult sight and hearing area.

Fujisawa Factory established. Listed in second of Tokyo Stock Exchange.

Supplied CBS of the U.S.A. with first version of a broadcast quality portable TV camera for the live coverage of launch of artical satellite Aurora 7. Developed Microwave/STL equipment, promoted line of transmitter units through development of microwaverelay units.

American subsidiary established in New York. (Transferred to Maywood, New Jersey in Dec. 1978).

Developed “TGK-6TC” Color Flying Spot Scanner.

Developed Optical Character Recognizer (OCR) in-house product with view to entering computer related market.

Utsunomiya Factory established. Developed “VF-7001” industrial color camera.

West Germany Representative Office established in Dusseldorf. Developed “TK-301” Color Camera, played active role in airborne coverage of Osaka International Exposition.

Developed “TK-301A” Color Camera based on TK-301. Supplied to NHK and many broadcast stations. Developed Money Changing Machine for Thousand-yen Bills.

Developed “HL-33” Portable Color Camera, used as ENG Camera.

Developed “MKC-309″Medical Camera and started approaching medical electronics market.

Offered a complete line of ENG systems to set up system ordering organization.

Developed “HL-79A” Portable Color Camera, top-of-the-line portable for program production.

Developed “PF-701” Compact Microwave Equipment, providing high performance, high reliability, and low power consumption.

Developed “IM Series” Image Frame Memory. Won Emmy Award for development of digital computers of automatic adjustment of color studio cameras.

Developed sorting mechanisms for copying machines, “Mr. Look Series” Video Information System, and started approaching security market.

Haneda Branch of Ikegami Factory established. Won Emmy Award for Electronic Cinematography Camera (EC-35). Promoted development of HDTV system components.

Shiohama Branch of Kawasaki Factory established. Listed in first section of Tokyo Stock Exchange. Completed nationwide video information network.

Developed Super-Micro Medical CCD Color Camera. Developed “TF-3000/TFF-2000/TFF-1000” Still Picture Filing System.

Developed New Helicopter Microwave System. Developed “TPP-1000” Ultra-high Precision Color Projector.

Beijing Representative Office established. Developed “DSS-5108C” Video Switcher and “MVS-9” Color Multi-Vision System.

Developed “HL-55 UNICAM” 3CCD Portable Color Camera and “MKC-100A” Ultra-Compact CCD Color Camera.

Developed 3D Television Camera System, combining video technology and ergonomics for high-quality 3D images.

Developed “TPP-1600HLB” Ultra-high Precision Color Projector. Developed “HL-V55”, a Betacam SP VCR one-piece camera.

A subsidiary, Techno Ikegami Co., Ltd., established. Singapore Representative Office established.

Established Ikegami Elder Co., Ltd. Developed “MUCCS45”, 45Mbits/Digital Coding System with KDD.

Established Item Co., Ltd. Moved sales HQs into JS Progres building. Developed “THD-100” Super-Micro Color Camera and “LCM-900” 9” Color Monitor.

Won Emmy Award for Skin-Tone Detail, Control Edge Enhancement technology. Developed “DRS Series” Digital Recording System with HDD.

Developed broadcasting camera recorder with digital disk recorders.

Developed “HL-V77 Series” DVCPRO Digital Camera/Recorder. Played active role in Olympics. Developed “HK-388/388P” and “HK-388W/388PW” Ultra-wideband Digital CCD Camera System.

Developed “SKC-100” High-Resolution Mono-chrome Camera. Developed “THD-330” Compact Digital Process 3CCD Color Camera. Developed “PF721” Multi-Band Microwave Link.

Received large order for 49 Studio Cameras from Doordarshan India. Supplied digital TSL to Tokyo Broadcasting System. Developed “HC-400” Digital Video Camera and “HDK-790D/79D” Full Digital HDTV Camera System.

Developed the hard disk camera (Editcam2) with lightweight Fieldpak2 for non-linear recording.

Developed 0.18 micro meter rule ASICs, first installed into the most advanced broadcast camera in the world.

Developed “HDK-790E/79E” full digital HDTV Camera System with 0.18μm rule ASIC.

Many broadcast quality cameras used for worldwide sport event in Japan. Developed “ICD-800 series” high performance digital processing CCD camera. Made alliance with DX ANTENNA CO., LTD. for CCTV equipment.

Developed the world’s first microwave digital Hi-Vision wireless system. Developed portable disk recorder DNE-31 for broadcasting.

Developed Editcam3 (DNS-33W). Received 3000 orders for ICD-808P monitoring color camera for RATP.

Developed PCS-25, a high resolution and highly sensitive dome camera.

Developed and marketed T-Sip IP surveillance system, including IPD-Q01 camera and INR-Q500 recorder. Developed full digital camera HDL-45.

Toshiba and Ikegami Tsushinki agreed on capital alliance. Ikegami successfully captured high definition images from lunar orbiter satellite “KAGUYA (SELENE)”.

Developed SKC-171 mega-pixel black & white camera. Developed HDL-F30 compact digital HDTV camera.

Developed MKC-300HD medical grade camera. Developed IPD-BX100/BX100/DM100 H.264 mega-pixel IP network cameras.

Ikegami wins the 62nd Annual Technology and Engineering Emmy® for contribution to the development and production of portable tapeless acquisition.

Developed “HDK-97A” UnicamHD, a 16-bit full digital HDTV camera. Developed HDL-45E/E1, a 14-bit multifunctional camera.

Established Ikegami Electronics Asia Pacific Private Limited in Singapore.

Developed UHK-X700, a 4K/HD Portable Camera System.

Developed HDK-X500, an HD Portable Camera System.