"Canon Inc. is a Japanese international corporation specializing in the manufacture of imaging and also optical products, including cameras, camcorders, expert displays, TV broadcasting as well as movie equipment, projectors, copy machines, photolitography devices (steppers, scanners), computer printers, image scanners, field glasses, microscopes, medical devices (consisting of Computer system Tomography analysis systems, MRI and analysis ultrasound systems), LCD and also OLED panel production equipment, CCTV remedies, envisioning sensors, calculators, high precision positioning and also dimension tools (such as rotating encoders), as well as customized optical elements (including lenses) for third party companies. It is headquartered in Ōta, Tokyo, Japan.

Canon has a key listing on the Tokyo Stock Market and also is a constituent of the TOPIX Core30 and also Nikkei 225 index. It has a secondary listing on the New York Stock Exchange.

Canon Inc. has 383 subsidiaries since 31 June 2017. The number includes second-generation subsidiaries, as an example, Canon IT Solutions Inc. "