# IEEE Masaru Ibuka Consumer Electronics Award

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.
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.

## Recipients

Source
| Year | Citation | Recipient(s) |
| 1989 | for development of the compact disc system | Heitaro Nakajima (Sony) |
| 1989 | for development of the compact disc system | 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) |
| 1993 | for contributions to consumer electronics products employing synthetic speech for education and entertainment | Paul S. Breedlove (CompuAdd) |
| 1993 | for contributions to consumer electronics products employing synthetic speech for education and entertainment | 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 |
| 1995 | for the Reed-Solomon codes | 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 |
| 2002 | for pioneering contributions to the research and development of HDTV | Kozo Hayashi |
| 2002 | for pioneering contributions to the research and development of HDTV | Masao Sugimoto |
| 2002 | for pioneering contributions to the research and development of HDTV | Masahiko Morizono |
| 2002 | for pioneering contributions to the research and development of HDTV | Yuichi Ninomiya |
| 2003 | for contributions to the synthesis and analysis of loudspeakers (Thiele/Small parameters) | Richard H. Small |
| 2003 | for contributions to the synthesis and analysis of loudspeakers (Thiele/Small parameters) | Neville Thiele |
| 2004 | for major contributions to MP3 audio coding | Karlheinz Brandenburg |
| 2005 | No award | No award |
| 2006 | Vestigial sideband | Wayne Bretl (Zenith) |
| 2006 | Vestigial sideband | Richard Citta |
| 2006 | Vestigial sideband | 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) |
| 2012 | for leadership and technical contributions to H.264/MPEG-4 AVC | Gary J. Sullivan (Microsoft) |
| 2012 | for leadership and technical contributions to H.264/MPEG-4 AVC | Thomas Wiegand (Fraunhofer) |
| 2013 | for the development and marketing of spectral band replication at Coding Technologies (now part of Dolby Laboratories) | Lars Liljeryd |
| 2013 | for the development and marketing of spectral band replication at Coding Technologies (now part of Dolby Laboratories) | Kristofer Kjörling |
| 2013 | for the development and marketing of spectral band replication at Coding Technologies (now part of Dolby Laboratories) | Martin Dietz |
| 2014 | No award | No award |
| 2015 | inventor of the mobile phone | Martin Cooper |
| 2016 | for designing and building the first digital still camera | Steven Sasson |
| 2017 | for pioneering contributions to high-speed Wireless LAN technology | John O'Sullivan |
| 2017 | for pioneering contributions to high-speed Wireless LAN technology | David Skellern |
| 2017 | for pioneering contributions to high-speed Wireless LAN technology | 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 |
| 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 | 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 |