The company has opened its new Innovation Garden OSAKA Front, a cooperation and development centre for imaging AI and IoT.
The Innovation Garden OSAKA Front was opened to develop the imaging AI and imaging IoT businesses and promote open innovation with customers and partner companies on the 32nd floor of Grand Front Osaka located in the centre of Osaka, in front of Umeda Station and Osaka Station.
The facility will engage in full-scale development of imaging IoT in the Kansai region by leveraging imaging AI technology and high-speed processing technology, which are the strengths of the company, as part of the growth strategy, Konica Minolta stated.
In 2020, Konica Minolta will construct the Innovation Garden OSAKA centre at the R&D centre near Japan Railway (JR) Takatsuki Station (Takatsuki Site). Core human resources in imaging AI and imaging IoT will be assigned to these centres, and will be joined by new employees and mid-career recruits, Konica Minolta explained. Innovation Garden OSAKA, which is the collective name for the Innovation Garden OSAKA Front and the Innovation Garden OSAKA centre, will create new value by using the strength of diverse human resources and will contribute to the evolution of human society by meeting the various visualization needs of global customers, according to the company.
The company said: “Konica Minolta meets such needs by using technology for visualising the invisible, based on the photo film and camera businesses on which the company was founded, to offer solutions and contribute to society. Konica Minolta’s human resources in imaging AI and imaging IoT will work mainly at Innovation Garden OSAKA and cooperate with local stakeholders to create new value.”
The Innovation Garden OSAKA Center will be constructed at the Takatsuki Site (Takatsuki City, Osaka Prefecture) near JR Takatsuki Station in FY2020 to strengthen the capability to develop imaging AI and imaging IoT. It will serve as the hub together with the Innovation Garden OSAKA Front that has been opened in Umeda.
