Konica Minolta : to Launch CA-410, a Color Analyzer for Measuring a Wide Range of Displays Including OLED Displays

Tokyo (November 9, 2017) - Konica Minolta, Inc. (Konica Minolta) announced that it will launch the CA-410, a color analyzer for measuring ever-evolving displays such as OLED displays, on November 15, 2017.

(The following values are when using a normal CA-P427 probe.)

*Measured under Konica Minolta's standard light source (6500K).

Konica Minolta's sensing business started with the development of a built-in exposure meter for cameras. In the 1960s, the company released standalone exposure meters and has since been offering products and services for light and color measurement, such as illuminance meters, spectroradiometers, and spectrophotometers, for more than 50 years as one of the leading companies in this field. Konica Minolta has also been working with public organizations responsible for setting industrial standards around the world and supporting industry with its optical measuring technologies. In particular, the Color Analyzer series which the company has been offering and evolving over the past 35 years are now recognized as the de-facto global standard in the area of quality control of TVs and are used by the world's major display manufacturers for a variety of purposes, including the inspection of smartphone and other OLED displays.

As part of its SHINKA 2019, the Medium Term Business Plan announced by Konica Minolta in 2017, the company is committed to carrying out strategies concurrently in three business areas-core business, growth business and new business-in its optical systems for industrial use business, which combines the company's sensing business with its other resources.

In the core business for sensing, Konica Minolta seeks to capture a greater share for light-measuring products by capitalizing on the growing demand for OLED displays and other market changes, and for color-measuring products by developing new product applications for the automobile, food and building-material industries.
In response to increasing automation at production sites and the growing importance of data utilization, the growth business strategy aims to combine the visual surface inspection technology held by Radiant, a company acquired by Konica Minolta in 2015, with existing optical measuring technology to provide turnkey in-line inspection systems, thereby achieving high added-value, high-profit businesses.
For new business, Konica Minolta will leverage its sensing and image analysis technologies to build high added-value products ready for the next generation in three categories: digital manufacturing, Quality of Life solutions and status monitoring solutions.

Konica Minolta will continue evolving so that it can better anticipate the needs of not only its customers in the manufacturing industry but also end users, and offer quality products for the benefit of society.

*1: White balance is the process of adjusting the light intensity ratio of light in the three primary colors - red, green and blue - for accurate reproduction of white.
*2: Gamma is a measure of tonal response. Gamma correction makes the brightness and color of the black and white halftone appear more natural and smooth to the eye.
*3: Based on gamma measurement simulation compared to CA-310 under Konica Minolta's test conditions (for 64 measurements). It excludes display startup time and wait time.