The information-intensive world of today is rapidly changing and creates a demand for the research and development of new strategies and technologies. As our dependence upon data, information and digital media grows, so does our commitment to create useful new ways to interact with and manage that data.
Ricoh Innovations has a current focus on five key areas of information and document technology.
Device Integration Research
Launched in April of 2005, the Device Integration Research Group is building the future of handheld integrated document-centric devices. Within this research area we focus on prototyping and exploring the…
Shared Media Group
As more people create and share more types of media: printed, digital, video, audio, the need for easy and transparent sharing, transport and display of that information increases…
Multimedia Documents
Today's business offices are creating and storing an increasingly complex set of business media. Our Multimedia Document Analysis group is researching meaningful improvements to how that information is captured…
Digital Optics Research
Traditional optical imaging systems form images by relying solely on the light shaping characteristics of bulk materials such as glasses and plastics which are precisely shaped into lenses. Whereas historically a chemical film served as the optical sensing medium…
