IEEE Masaru Ibuka Consumer Electronics Award

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IEEE Masaru Ibuka Consumer Electronics Award
Awarded foroutstanding contributions to consumer electronics technology.
Sponsored by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
CountryUSA
First award1987
Website IEEE Masaru Ibuka Consumer Electronics Award
IEEE Consumer Electronics Award (Ibuka Award), front, in box, with box open. IbukaAward2025front.jpg
IEEE Consumer Electronics Award (Ibuka Award), front, in box, with box open.
IEEE Consumer Electronics Award (Ibuka Award), back IbukaAward2025back.jpg
IEEE Consumer Electronics Award (Ibuka Award), back
IEEE Consumer Electronics Award (Ibuka Award) as worn around the neck of 2025 Award recipient Steve Mann IbukaAward2025worn.jpg
IEEE Consumer Electronics Award (Ibuka Award) as worn around the neck of 2025 Award recipient Steve Mann
IEEE Consumer Electronics Award (Ibuka Award) certificate as presented to Linus Torvalds 2018 at CES / IEEE ICCE in Las Vegas Linus-Torvalds IEEE Ibuka Award 2018.jpg
IEEE Consumer Electronics Award (Ibuka Award) certificate as presented to Linus Torvalds 2018 at CES / IEEE ICCE in Las Vegas

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 [1] .

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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]

Recipients

Source [3]

YearCitationRecipient(s)
1989for development of the compact disc system Heitaro Nakajima (Sony)
Johannes Petrus Sinjou (Philips)
1990for development of the autofocus cameraNorman L. Stauffer
1991for contributions to the development of the charge-coupled device image sensors in consumer video cameras Gilbert F. Amelio
1992for demonstrating technical feasibility of large size color LCD displays suitable for consumer TV applicationsIsamu Washizuka (Sharp)
1993for contributions to consumer electronics products employing synthetic speech for education and entertainmentGeorge L. Brantingham (TI)
Paul S. Breedlove (CompuAdd)
Richard H. Wiggins (TI)
1994for contributions to FM stereophonic and television multichannel sound broadcasting systemsCarl G. Eilers (Zenith)
1995for the Reed-Solomon codes Irving S. Reed
Gustave Solomon
1996for contributions to consumer digital audio and video recording products Kees A. Schouhamer Immink (Philips)
1997for contributions to the development of audio noise reduction and surround sound systems Ray M. Dolby (Dolby)
1998for engineering leadership in the development of digital television for broadcast, cable and satellite applicationsJerrold A. Heller
1999for technical leadership in the development of the MPEG international standards for motion video and audio Leonardo Chiariglione
2000for contributions to the development of low-light level, solid-state imagers used in consumer productsMarvin H. White
2001for leadership in the development of digital video broadcast Ulrich Reimers
2002for pioneering contributions to the research and development of HDTV Takashi Fujio
Kozo Hayashi
Masao Sugimoto
Masahiko Morizono
Yuichi Ninomiya
2003for contributions to the synthesis and analysis of loudspeakers (Thiele/Small parameters) Richard H. Small
Neville Thiele
2004for major contributions to MP3 audio coding Karlheinz Brandenburg
2005No award
2006 [4] Vestigial sideband Wayne Bretl (Zenith)
Richard Citta
Wayne Luplow (Zenith)
2007for contributions in audio and cinema multichannel playback systems (THX) Tomlinson Holman
2008for development of home interactive video games and other toys Ralph H. Baer
2009inventor of the first wireless remote control Eugene J. Polley (Zenith)
2010for contributions to the development and commercialization of digital video recorders James Barton (TiVo)
2011for contributions to image compression in printing technology and digital image processing Joan Laverne Mitchell (Ricoh)
2012for leadership and technical contributions to H.264/MPEG-4 AVC Gisle Bjøntegaard (Tandberg)
Gary J. Sullivan (Microsoft)
Thomas Wiegand (Fraunhofer)
2013for the development and marketing of spectral band replication at Coding Technologies (now part of Dolby Laboratories)Lars Liljeryd
Kristofer Kjörling
Martin Dietz
2014No award
2015inventor of the mobile phone Martin Cooper
2016for designing and building the first digital still camera [5] Steven Sasson
2017for pioneering contributions to high-speed Wireless LAN technology John O'Sullivan
David Skellern
Terence Percival
2018for his leadership of the development and proliferation of Linux Linus Torvalds
2019for 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
2020for creating an inexpensive single-board computer and surrounding ecosystem for education and consumer applications (Raspberry Pi) Eben C. Upton (Raspberry Pi Foundation)
2021for pioneering the design of consumer-friendly personal computers. Steve Wozniak
2022for contributions to the development of image sensors with integrated color filter arrays for digital video and still camerasPeter Dillon and Albert Brault
2023for leadership in creating open and free operating systems for embedded computers in consumer electronics.Ken Sakamura
2024for the design of the 32-bit ARM RISC microprocessorSteve Furber and Sophie Wilson
2025for contributions to the advancement of wearable computing and high dynamic range imaging. Steve Mann

See also

References

  1. 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.
  2. https://ethw.org/IEEE_Masaru_Ibuka_Consumer_Electronics_Award
  3. IEEE [ bare URL PDF ]
  4. "IEEE Honors Zenith Engineers for HDTV Development Work". 17 January 2006.
  5. "2016 IEEE Technical Field Award Recipients and Citations" (PDF). IEEE.org. 29 June 2015. Archived from the original (PDF) on July 1, 2015. Retrieved 8 July 2015.