Principal Research Engineer
NHK Science & Technology Research Laboratories
Setagaya-ku, Tokyo, Japan
Kenichiro Masaoka is a Principal Research Engineer at NHK Science and Technology Research Laboratories, Tokyo, Japan. He received his B.S. degree in Electronics Engineering in 1994, M.S. degree in Energy Engineering in 1996, and Ph.D. in Engineering in 2009, all from the Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan. He worked with Professors Mark Fairchild and Roy Berns during a six-month residency as a Visiting Scientist at the Munsell Color Science Laboratory, Rochester Institute of Technology in 2012. His research interests include color science and digital imaging systems. In 2017, he received a Special Recognition Award from the Society for Information Display (SID) for his leading contributions to the research and development of a wide-color-gamut UHD-TV display system and gamut-area metrology. In 2019, he received the Journal Certificate of Merit from the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers (SMPTE) for his paper titled “Realtime Measurement of Ultrahigh-Definition Camera Modulation Transfer Function.” He chairs the Subcommittee on Color Metrology and the Subcommittee on Spatial Mesurements of the International Committee for Display Metrology (ICDM), a part of the SID Definitions and Standards Committee charged with setting standards for display metrology. He is an expert in CIE TC 8-13 (color gamuts for output media), IEC TC 110 WG10 (laser display devices) and WG13 (optical measurements of electronic displays), and ISO TC42 WG18 (photography – electronic still picture imaging).
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Wednesday, May 11, 2022
9:00 AM – 9:20 AM