Hori Wins AIA Award

Toshi Hori, president of GeviCam Inc. in Ann Arbor, Mich., was presented with the 2009 Automated Imaging Association’s annual Achievement Award during a ceremony held at the association’s 17th annual Business Conference in San Diego. The award honors one industry leader for outstanding contributions in promoting market acceptance of industrial and/or scientific imaging. Hori was nominated by AIA members and selected from a pool of candidates by its board of directors, who wished to recognize him for his technology innovations and his contributions to the machine vision and imaging industry. His inventions include the electronic shutter CCD camera for factory automation, progressive-scan interline-transfer CCD cameras, the original Channel Link camera and neural network-based smart cameras.