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Under the background of the information age, the rapid development of digital technology has brought new opportunities and challenges to various industries. Seeking innovation and transformation is a subject that the development of enterprises in the industry must face. Ricoh Group, which is transforming into a digital service-oriented company, focuses on cutting-edge science and technology, continues to pay attention to technological progress, encourages innovation, and works with partners to create a better future. Recently, Ricoh Group announced that it will host the third Science and Innovation Competition with the theme of "gathering wisdom to help innovation". The Innovation Competition, which has been successfully held three times since 2021, is an innovative event focusing on collaborative innovation, exchange and cooperation in science and technology between China and Japan. This event provides an open, fair, transparent and sustainable competition environment for conceptual and thoughtful innovation teams, helping many innovation teams that break through new technologies and explore new scenarios to accelerate their growth. Ricoh Group expects more innovative and practical teams to join the competition to jointly promote the development of scientific and technological innovation and change the world with technology and practice.

It is understood that Ricoh Group joined hands with Sony, Murata (China) and Nitto Electric in this competition, and opened to participating enterprises, universities and teams to focus on the cutting-edge hard core technology of the four major tracks of advanced equipment, decarbonization technology, digital AI, and culture and entertainment, providing participants with valuable opportunities for learning and development, and looking forward to reaping achievements in the corresponding fields. The four major tracks cover the overall situation of scientific and technological innovation, in line with Ricoh's new development concept of innovation, coordination, green, openness and sharing. Next, let's take a look at the specific technical categories involved in these four tracks and the organizers will bring the cutting-edge science and technology crystallization of the competition site.

Innovation Cornerstone: advanced equipment Race track

The advanced equipment track focuses on cutting-edge technology and will provide the cornerstone of innovation for the development of the industry. In this competition, Ricoh brought the crawler robot base, fretting sensing system and other technologies. In order to solve the problem of complex terrain and difficult manual operation, the crawler robot adapted to complex and diversified terrain arises at the historic moment, which has the characteristics of flexible steering, small size and strong expansibility. Fretting sensing system solves the problem of poor accuracy of traditional devices in capturing fine movements, unable to sense ultra-high-speed and high-definition motion, can capture biological / abiotic micro-changes, and is expected to be widely used in biological motion detection, human-computer interaction and other fields.

Drive engine, digital AI track

Digital AI track opens Ricoh's machine vision technology platform, intelligent document platform and factory digital technology platform. Ricoh machine vision technology platform includes image processing, enhancement, segmentation, detection, recognition and other modules, which can realize size measurement, defect detection, visual positioning, image fusion and so on. In addition, Ricoh also brings an intelligent document platform, equipped with advanced OCR and NLP algorithm engines, which can not only achieve digital processing of various types of documents, but also achieve 90% process automation. In the aspect of factory digitization, Ricoh's "one object, one code" security label adopts Ricoh invisible digital watermarking technology, and the certificate cross-validates the supply chain data collected by many parties. Compared with traditional labels, great progress has been made in traceability, security management and anti-counterfeiting. The intelligent image recognition and positioning algorithm supporting the warehouse intelligent management system has a positioning error less than 10mm, supports low-quality bar code recognition and goods detection, and has a comprehensive accuracy of more than 94%. Intelligent stocktaking solves the shortcomings of low efficiency of traditional stocktaking methods and low barcode recognition rate of equipment. Ricoh expects that the technology gathered in the digital AI track will become the engine of customer business acceleration.

Environment-friendly, decarbonization and environmental protection track

In terms of decarbonization and environmental protection technology, Ricoh brought DSSC: all-solid-state dye-sensitized photovoltaic cells and PLAiR: polylactic acid micro-foamed sheet. DSSC is a new generation of photoenergy cell that collects the light energy of indoor lighting and supports independent power supply, which can support the Internet of things sensors to supply power independently, eliminating the trouble of extra charging or replacing the battery. Its material technology is derived from Ricoh's self-developed organic photosensors (organic light drums for high-precision imaging in laser printing), which can maintain high power generation efficiency in low lighting indoor light environment and achieve maintenance-free power supply. The battery itself uses all-solid electrolyte, which has high safety and durability, no pollution and long service life. PLAiR is a new generation of substitute plastic material which is derived from plants and air and can be compost biodegradable. It can replace petroleum-based non-degradable foamed plastics (disposable tableware, packaging, buffer materials, etc.). It can reduce the amount of polylactic acid raw materials by foaming expansion and save the cost of replacement plastics. it can be widely used in food-grade packaging, food containers, fragile goods buffer materials and other fields. Decarbonization and environmental protection technology will promote the sustainable development of the industry and contribute to the protection of the environment and green development.

Global application, cultural and entertainment track

At the cultural and entertainment track, Ricoh brought the panoramic camera THETA Z1. This is the world's first 1-inch CMOS professional panoramic camera, supporting one-button panoramic 360-degree imaging, supporting Ricoh panoramic vision algorithm platform, can achieve panoramic image enhancement, spatial recognition perception, panoramic navigation, target detection crowd analysis and other functions, in virtual reality, meta-universe and other fields to provide powerful technical support.

In this competition, co-organizers Sony, Murata (China) and Nitto Electric also opened up their cutting-edge technologies. Sony has brought a number of entertainment interactive technologies from 3D capture, motion capture to 3D display, among which FVV- volume capture technology is a lightweight volume capture technology that greatly reduces the dependence of traditional volume capture technology on the number of cameras. It is used in scenes such as VR / AR 3D content generation and dynamic stereo photography, as well as motion capture Mocopi and 3D display SRD technology, which enriches users' sensory experience of entertainment interaction in an all-round way. Murata brings advanced sensor solutions, including piezoelectric, air pressure, inertial navigation, ranging and other scenes to meet the special needs of different production environments. Its Picoleaf piezoelectric thin film sensor has high precision at the micron level and is suitable for the surface of any material, which can be bent without calibration. Type2AB UWB+BLE Module accurate ranging technology based on signal time of flight can be used to realize indoor positioning system, non-lifting access control, non-inductance and other applications. Nitto Electric brings advanced technology of a variety of functional materials, including flexible sensors that can accurately sense motion changes such as object angle and expansion, and achieve flexible change measurement in rich scenes; AOC connector is the first time in the industry to achieve compact and lightweight flexible AOC, its excellent softness makes it only 40% of the thickness of traditional connectors; keystroke glass uses a glass panel, so that the keystroke switch can be physically clicked and has a new touch.

Tournament rights and interests

Ricoh Group has prepared rich rights and interests for contestants. In addition to the cash reward, the winning team in the preliminary competition will also have the opportunity to participate in the innovation acceleration camp, and the winning team will receive personal guidance from field experts and well-known mentors, and the growth of the project will be helped in an all-round way. At the same time, the outstanding teams of the competition will conduct in-depth docking with Ricoh, Sony, Murata, Nitto Electric technical experts, domestic factories, channel resources, etc., which will undoubtedly provide more opportunities and resources for the commercial landing of the project for the participants. The final winning team will have the opportunity to go to Japan to exchange and learn with Ricoh headquarters.

The Innovation Competition has always been committed to the collaborative innovation, exchange and cooperation of science and technology between China and Japan, constantly promoting the transfer and deepening of Japan's cutting-edge technology to China, while providing new technology support to local enterprises. it also provides help for China to form an open innovation ecology with global competitiveness. Ricoh hopes that through competition platforms such as the Ricoh Competition, innovative technical teams will be able to polish, refine and cultivate their own products in their respective fields, as well as reap like-minded partners and promising business opportunities. Look forward to more teams working together to promote the development of scientific and technological innovation and work together to achieve a better future.

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