Toshi Hori’s Biography Toshi Hori left JAI Pulnix as CEO/president for Pulnix and chief technology officer of the JAI Group. He started PULNiX America, Inc. in 1982 and was an early pioneer in the use of CCD cameras in commercial applications. PULNiX America was acquired by the JAI Group in 2003 and is now known as JAI PULNiX. Toshi Hori holds over a dozen patents for such inventions as electronic shutter CCD cameras for factory automation, progressive scan interline-transfer CCD cameras, the original Channel Link camera standard, (now known as the Camera Link standard) and neural network-based smart cameras. Prior to his work at JAI PULNiX, he worked for Raytheon Semiconductor and its subsidiary in Japan (1967-1981) as a semiconductor design engineer, marketing manager and later as general manager of the US office. He has extensive technical expertise in the fields of superconductivity, solid-state physics, semiconductor design and fabrication, microwave sensors, and CCD/CMOS camera design. In his marketing work, he served in the fields of semiconductors, microwave, security intrusion detection, surveillance, aerospace and military, ITS, and factory automation. Born and educated in Japan, Toshi Hori has worked and traveled across the globe and has set up operations in Europe, Australia, and Asia, including Japan. Toshi Hori was a board member of AIA since 1998 until 2005. In 2000, he brought the Camera Link standard to the attention of the AIA, which subsequently acquired it as their first official standard. Toshi Hori is currently serving as AIA standard committee chair and co-chairperson of the GigE Vision standard committee |