Accelerates Research by Virtually Connecting Japan, Singapore and Silicon Valley to Provide Solutions and Services That Meet Global Needs

TOKYO, September 29, 2015 — Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd. announces the establishment of a research organization in Singapore—the Innovation Office—beginning full-scale operation on October 1. As Fuji Xerox’s new research base of the Asia-Pacific region, the Innovation Office aims to quickly correspond to global customer needs collaborating with Fuji Xerox’s existing two research facilities—Japan’s Fuji Xerox R&D Square in Yokohama and FX Palo Alto Laboratory Inc. in the United States—by conducting research activities with a mid- to long-term perspective in aims of commercializing them as Fuji Xerox’s solutions and services.

With an aim to ultimately deliver technologies that resolve customers’ business challenges, the Innovation Office will create new values by verifying Fuji Xerox’s technologies—including its latest technologies under research—through working closely with customers and partner companies in the Asia-Pacific region excluding Japan. Following the verification, Fuji Xerox researchers and technical staff in Japan who are specialized in areas such as image processing and text analysis will be assigned accordingly to commercialize those values by developing specific solutions/services to offer to customers.

Further, Fuji Xerox will create a virtual showcase, which is a three-dimensional (3D) modeling of some of the research activities taking place at Fuji Xerox’s R&D locations in Japan, the United States and Singapore. Visitors at the three locations can view the latest researches being conducted under a long-term perspective at FX Palo Alto Laboratory, such as Multimedia Processing and Computer-human Interaction Technology, as well as glocal case studies reflecting the localities of the Asia-Pacific region including Japan and Singapore. The virtual showcase is created incorporating Fuji Xerox’s multimedia technology Note 1 and remote communications technology Note 2, allowing its customers and research staff working remotely in Japan, Silicon Valley and Singapore to jointly experience the technology and verify its values, as if they are working in the same room.

“We are pleased that Fuji Xerox has chosen Singapore to establish its new research hub, the Innovation Office,” says Mr. Beng Kong Pee, director of Electronics at the Singapore Economic Development Board Note 4. “By being in Singapore, Fuji Xerox’s Innovation Office will be able to leverage on our multi-disciplinary R&D environment and diverse talent pool to co-create solutions with the large base of clients and partners headquartered here.”

To date, Fuji Xerox has promoted R&D focusing on solving customers’ business challenges at its main R&D site in Japan, Fuji Xerox R&D Square, while working closely with FX Palo Alto Laboratory that conducts advanced researches in the innovative climate of the Silicon Valley.

Now with the establishment of the Innovation Office in Singapore—which is not only a geographical center of the Asia-Pacific region but also a leading country in terms of commercial distribution, logistics and latest technological research activities—, Fuji Xerox will enhance its R&D structure by incorporating (1) a global perspective to tackle customers’ challenges, (2) latest technologies and (3) business models, to further accelerate its solutions and services business.

• Note1Technology that enables, for example, images and videos of the real world to be built into a virtual three dimensional world. Another example is to enable a real sensed information to be reflected onto a model.
• Note2Technology that enables several locations to be connected with a remote conferencing system via web interface.
• Note3Singapore’s lead government agency for planning and executing strategies to enhance Singapore’s position as a global business center.
  https://www.edb.gov.sg/content/edb/en.html