The IEEE Masaru Ibuka Consumer Electronics Award is a Technical Field Award of the IEEE given for outstanding contributions to consumer electronics technology. It is named in honor of Masaru Ibuka, co-founder and honorary chairman of Sony 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.Steve Mann, Father Of Wearable Computing, Given IEEE Ibuka Award, Forbes, Feb 13, 2025, 06:14pm EST, By Thomas Coughlin, Contributor. Covering Digital Storage Technology & Market. IEEE President in 2024.
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.
Recipients Source Year Citation Recipient(s) 1989 for development of the compact disc system Heitaro Nakajima (Sony) Johannes Petrus Sinjou (Philips) 1990 for development of the autofocus camera Norman L. Stauffer 1991 for contributions to the development of the charge-coupled device image sensors in consumer video 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 employing synthetic 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 the Reed-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 the MPEG 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 of digital video broadcast Ulrich Reimers 2002 for pioneering contributions to the research and development of HDTV 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 to MP3 audio coding Karlheinz Brandenburg 2005 colspan=2 2006 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 home interactive video games and other toys Ralph H. Baer 2009 inventor of the first wireless remote control Eugene J. Polley (Zenith) 2010 for contributions to the development and commercialization of digital video recorders James Barton (TiVo) 2011 for contributions to image compression in printing technology and digital image processing Joan Laverne Mitchell (Ricoh) 2012 for leadership and technical contributions to H.264/MPEG-4 AVC Gisle Bjøntegaard (Tandberg) Gary J. Sullivan (Microsoft) Thomas Wiegand (Fraunhofer) 2013 for the development and marketing of spectral band replication at Coding Technologies (now part of Dolby Laboratories) Lars Liljeryd Kristofer Kjörling Martin Dietz 2014 colspan=2 2015 inventor of the mobile phone Martin Cooper 2016 for designing and building the first digital still camera Steven Sasson 2017 for pioneering contributions to high-speed Wireless LAN technology John O'Sullivan David SkellernTerence Percival 2018 for his leadership of the development and proliferation of Linux 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 Wozniak2022for contributions to the development of image sensors with integrated color filter arrays for digital video and still camerasPeter Dillon and Albert Brault2023for leadership in creating open and free operating systems for embedded computers in consumer electronics.Ken Sakamura2024for the design of the 32-bit ARM RISC microprocessorSteve Furber and Sophie Wilson2025for contributions to the advancement of wearable computing and high dynamic range imaging.Steve Mann
See also Prizes named after people
External links Information about the award at IEEE List of recipients of the IEEE Masaru Ibuka Award
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