IEEE Masaru Ibuka Consumer Electronics Award

Award

IEEE Masaru Ibuka Consumer Electronics Award

Awarded for| outstanding contributions to consumer electronics technology.
Sponsored by| Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
Country| USA
First award| 1987
Website| IEEE Masaru Ibuka Consumer Electronics Award
IEEE Consumer Electronics Award (Ibuka Award), front, in box, with box open. IEEE Consumer Electronics Award (Ibuka Award), back 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

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]

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

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Year | Citation | Recipient(s)

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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 | 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 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 | No award
2015 | inventor of the mobile phone | Martin Cooper
2016  | for designing and building the first digital still camera[5] | Steven Sasson
2017  | for pioneering contributions to high-speed Wireless LAN technology  | John O'Sullivan
David Skellern
Terence 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 Wozniak
2022  | for contributions to the development of image sensors with integrated color filter arrays for digital video and still cameras  | Peter Dillon and Albert 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 and Sophie Wilson
2025  | for contributions to the advancement of wearable computing and high dynamic range imaging.  | Steve Mann

## See also

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* Prizes named after people

## External links

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* Information about the award at IEEE
* List of recipients of the IEEE Masaru Ibuka Award

## References

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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.

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