| Year |
Citation |
Recipient(s)
|
| 1989
|
for development of the compact disc system
|
Heitaro Nakajima (Sony)
|
| Johannes Petrus Sinjou (Philips)
|
| 1990 |
for development of the autofocus camera |
Norman L. Stauffer
|
| 1991 |
for contributions to the development of the charge-coupled device image sensors in consumer video cameras |
Gilbert F. Amelio
|
| 1992 |
for demonstrating technical feasibility of large size color LCD displays suitable for consumer TV applications |
Isamu Washizuka (Sharp)
|
| 1993
|
for contributions to consumer electronics products employing synthetic speech for education and entertainment
|
George L. Brantingham (TI)
|
| Paul S. Breedlove (CompuAdd)
|
| Richard H. Wiggins (TI)
|
| 1994 |
for contributions to FM stereophonic and television multichannel sound broadcasting systems |
Carl G. Eilers (Zenith)
|
| 1995
|
for the Reed-Solomon codes
|
Irving S. Reed
|
| Gustave Solomon
|
| 1996 |
for contributions to consumer digital audio and video recording products |
Kees A. Schouhamer Immink (Philips)
|
| 1997 |
for contributions to the development of audio noise reduction and surround sound systems |
Ray M. Dolby (Dolby)
|
| 1998 |
for engineering leadership in the development of digital television for broadcast, cable and satellite applications |
Jerrold A. Heller
|
| 1999 |
for technical leadership in the development of the MPEG international standards for motion video and audio |
Leonardo Chiariglione
|
| 2000 |
for contributions to the development of low-light level, solid-state imagers used in consumer products |
Marvin H. White
|
| 2001 |
for leadership in the development of digital video broadcast |
Ulrich Reimers
|
| 2002
|
for pioneering contributions to the research and development of HDTV
|
Takashi Fujio
|
| Kozo Hayashi
|
| Masao Sugimoto
|
| Masahiko Morizono
|
| Yuichi Ninomiya
|
| 2003
|
for contributions to the synthesis and analysis of loudspeakers (Thiele/Small parameters)
|
Richard H. Small
|
| Neville Thiele
|
| 2004 |
for major contributions to MP3 audio coding |
Karlheinz Brandenburg
|
| 2005 |
No award
|
| 2006[3]
|
Vestigial sideband
|
Wayne Bretl (Zenith)
|
| Richard Citta
|
| Wayne Luplow (Zenith)
|
| 2007 |
for contributions in audio and cinema multichannel playback systems (THX) |
Tomlinson Holman
|
| 2008 |
for development of home interactive video games and other toys |
Ralph H. Baer
|
| 2009 |
inventor of the first wireless remote control |
Eugene J. Polley (Zenith)
|
| 2010 |
for contributions to the development and commercialization of digital video recorders |
James Barton (TiVo)
|
| 2011 |
for contributions to image compression in printing technology and digital image processing |
Joan Laverne Mitchell (Ricoh)
|
| 2012
|
for leadership and technical contributions to H.264/MPEG-4 AVC
|
Gisle Bjøntegaard (Tandberg)
|
| Gary J. Sullivan (Microsoft)
|
| Thomas Wiegand (Fraunhofer)
|
| 2013
|
for the development and marketing of spectral band replication at Coding Technologies (now part of Dolby Laboratories)
|
Lars Liljeryd
|
| Kristofer Kjörling
|
| Martin Dietz
|
| 2014 |
No award
|
| 2015 |
inventor of the mobile phone |
Martin Cooper
|
| 2016
|
for designing and building the first digital still camera[4]
|
Steven Sasson
|
| 2017
|
for pioneering contributions to high-speed Wireless LAN technology
|
John O'Sullivan
|
| David Skellern
|
| Terence Percival
|
| 2018 |
for his leadership of the development and proliferation of Linux
|
Linus Torvalds
|
| 2019
|
for accelerating the replacement of 100-year-old analog film technologies used in cinema and television by providing extremely high visual quality using digital-imaging solution
|
Tomonori Aoyama
|
| Takashi Hayasaka
|
| 2020
|
for creating an inexpensive single-board computer and surrounding ecosystem for education and consumer applications (Raspberry Pi)
|
Eben C. Upton (Raspberry Pi Foundation)
|
| 2021
|
for pioneering the design of consumer-friendly personal computers.
|
Steve Wozniak
|
| 2022
|
for contributions to the development of image sensors with integrated color filter arrays for digital video and still cameras
|
Peter Dillon and Albert Brault
|
| 2023
|
for leadership in creating open and free operating systems for embedded computers in consumer electronics.
|
Ken Sakamura
|
| 2024
|
for the design of the 32-bit ARM RISC microprocessor
|
Steve Furber and Sophie Wilson
|
| 2025
|
for contributions to the advancement of wearable computing and high dynamic range imaging.
|
Steve Mann
|
