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Olympus Corporation

Index Olympus Corporation

is a Japanese manufacturer of optics and reprography products. [1]

100 relations: Acapella (trimaran), Accounting scandals, Arrest, Auditor, Bank, Board of directors, British people, Camera, Canon Inc., Chief executive officer, CompactFlash, Contingent fee, Corporate crime, Corporate governance, Corporate transparency, Cover-up, Damages, Death threat, Defamation, Derivative (finance), Dictation machine, Digital camera, Digital single-lens reflex camera, Director (business), Dismissal (employment), Dust, Dust reduction system, Electronics, Endoscope, Fiberscope, Financial Instruments and Exchange Act, Financial market, Four Thirds system, Greek mythology, Image analysis, Intercultural competence, Japan, Japanese mythology, JVC, Kickback (bribery), Kyodo News, Laboratory, List of corporate collapses and scandals, List of digital camera brands, List of Japanese deities, List of Olympus products, List of people involved in the Olympus scandal, List of photographic equipment makers, Mass media, Medical device, ..., Michael Woodford (executive), Micro Four Thirds system, Microcassette, Microscope, Mirrorless interchangeable-lens camera, Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group, Money laundering, Mount Olympus, MUFG Bank, Nikon, Nippon Life, Nondestructive testing, Olympus E-5, Olympus OM system, Olympus Pen, Olympus scandal, Optics, Reprography, Resignation, Revenge, Sankei Shimbun, Secure Digital, Serious Fraud Office (United Kingdom), Shinjuku, Skin care, SmartMedia, Snowball effect, Sony, Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation, Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group, Tableware, Takama-ga-hara, The Daily Telegraph, The Japan Times, Thermometer, Thomson Reuters, Tobashi scheme, Tokyo, United Kingdom, United States, Valuation (finance), Variable Control Voice Actuator, Whistleblower, Wrongful dismissal, X-ray fluorescence, XD-Picture Card, Yakuza, Yoshihisa Maitani, Zuiko, 4K resolution. Expand index (50 more) »

Acapella (trimaran)

Acapella is an historic trimaran sailboat, designed and built by Walter Greene in 1978 and later renamed Olympus Photo.

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Accounting scandals

Accounting scandals are business scandals which arise from intentional manipulation of financial statements with the disclosure of financial misdeeds by trusted executives of corporations or governments.

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Arrest

An arrest is the act of apprehending a person and taking them into custody, usually because they have been suspected of committing or planning a crime.

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Auditor

An auditor is a person or a firm appointed by a company to execute an audit.

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Bank

A bank is a financial institution that accepts deposits from the public and creates credit.

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Board of directors

A board of directors is a recognized group of people who jointly oversee the activities of an organization, which can be either a for-profit business, nonprofit organization, or a government agency.

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British people

The British people, or the Britons, are the citizens of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, the British Overseas Territories, and the Crown dependencies.

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Camera

A camera is an optical instrument for recording or capturing images, which may be stored locally, transmitted to another location, or both.

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Canon Inc.

is a Japanese multinational corporation specializing in the manufacture of imaging and optical products, including cameras, camcorders, photocopiers, steppers, computer printers and medical equipment. It's headquartered in Ōta, Tokyo, Japan."." Canon. Retrieved on 13 January 2009. Canon has a primary listing on the Tokyo Stock Exchange and is a constituent of the TOPIX index. It has a secondary listing on the New York Stock Exchange.

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Chief executive officer

Chief executive officer (CEO) is the position of the most senior corporate officer, executive, administrator, or other leader in charge of managing an organization especially an independent legal entity such as a company or nonprofit institution.

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CompactFlash

CompactFlash (CF) is a flash memory mass storage device used mainly in portable electronic devices.

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Contingent fee

A contingent fee or contingency fee (in the United States) or conditional fee (in England and Wales) is any fee for services provided where the fee is payable only if there is a favourable result.

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Corporate crime

In criminology, corporate crime refers to crimes committed either by a corporation (i.e., a business entity having a separate legal personality from the natural persons that manage its activities), or by individuals acting on behalf of a corporation or other business entity (see vicarious liability and corporate liability).

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Corporate governance

Corporate governance is the mechanisms, processes and relations by which corporations are controlled and directed.

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Corporate transparency

Corporate transparency describes the extent to which a corporation's actions are observable by outsiders.

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Cover-up

A cover-up is an attempt, whether successful or not, to conceal evidence of wrongdoing, error, incompetence or other embarrassing information.

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Damages

In law, damages are an award, typically of money, to be paid to a person as compensation for loss or injury.

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Death threat

A death threat is a threat, often made anonymously, by one person or a group of people to kill another person or group of people.

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Defamation

Defamation, calumny, vilification, or traducement is the communication of a false statement that, depending on the law of the country, harms the reputation of an individual, business, product, group, government, religion, or nation.

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Derivative (finance)

In finance, a derivative is a contract that derives its value from the performance of an underlying entity.

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Dictation machine

A dictation machine is a sound recording device most commonly used to record speech for later playback or to be typed into print.

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Digital camera

A digital camera or digicam is a camera that captures photographs in digital memory.

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Digital single-lens reflex camera

A digital single-lens reflex camera (also called digital SLR or DSLR) is a digital camera that combines the optics and the mechanisms of a single-lens reflex camera with a digital imaging sensor, as opposed to photographic film.

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Director (business)

A director is a person from a group of managers who leads or supervises a particular area of a company.

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Dismissal (employment)

Dismissal (referred to informally as firing or sacking) is the termination of employment by an employer against the will of the employee.

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Dust

Dust are fine particles of matter.

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Dust reduction system

A dust reduction system, or dust removal system, is used in several makes of digital cameras to remove dust from the image sensor.

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Electronics

Electronics is the discipline dealing with the development and application of devices and systems involving the flow of electrons in a vacuum, in gaseous media, and in semiconductors.

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Endoscope

An endoscope is an illuminated optical, typically slender and tubular instrument (a type of borescope) used to look deep into the body and used in procedures called an endoscopy.

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Fiberscope

A fiberscope is a flexible optical fiber bundle with an eyepiece on one end and a lens on the other that is used to examine and inspect small, difficult-to-reach places such as the insides of machines, locks, and the human body.

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Financial Instruments and Exchange Act

The, promulgated on June 14, 2006, is the main statute codifying securities law and regulating securities companies in Japan.

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Financial market

A financial market is a market in which people trade financial securities and derivatives such as futures and options at low transaction costs.

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Four Thirds system

The Four Thirds System is a standard created by Olympus and Eastman Kodak for digital single-lens reflex camera (DSLR) and mirrorless camera design and development.

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Greek mythology

Greek mythology is the body of myths and teachings that belong to the ancient Greeks, concerning their gods and heroes, the nature of the world, and the origins and significance of their own cult and ritual practices.

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Image analysis

Image analysis is the extraction of meaningful information from images; mainly from digital images by means of digital image processing techniques.

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Intercultural competence

U.S. Military Academy Center for Languages, Cultures, and Regional Studies.

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Japan

Japan (日本; Nippon or Nihon; formally 日本国 or Nihon-koku, lit. "State of Japan") is a sovereign island country in East Asia.

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Japanese mythology

Japanese mythology embraces Shinto and Buddhist traditions as well as agriculturally-based folk religion.

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JVC

,, usually referred to as JVC or The Japan Victor Company, is a Japanese international professional and consumer electronics corporation based in Yokohama.

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Kickback (bribery)

A kickback is a form of negotiated bribery in which a commission is paid to the bribe-taker in exchange for services rendered.

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Kyodo News

is a nonprofit cooperative news agency based in Minato, Tokyo.

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Laboratory

A laboratory (informally, lab) is a facility that provides controlled conditions in which scientific or technological research, experiments, and measurement may be performed.

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List of corporate collapses and scandals

A corporate collapse typically involves the insolvency or bankruptcy of a major business enterprise.

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List of digital camera brands

This is a list of digital camera brands.

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List of Japanese deities

This is a list of divinities native to Japanese beliefs and religious traditions.

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List of Olympus products

The following is an alphabetically-sorted list of products manufactured under the Olympus company brand.

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List of people involved in the Olympus scandal

A number of individuals whose backgrounds are important to the understanding of the Olympus scandal, which was precipitated on 14 October 2011 when the company's British-born chief executive, Michael Woodford was suddenly ousted as chief executive of Olympus Corporation.

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List of photographic equipment makers

This list of photographic equipment makers lists companies that manufacture (or license manufacture from other companies) equipment for photography.

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Mass media

The mass media is a diversified collection of media technologies that reach a large audience via mass communication.

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Medical device

A medical device is any apparatus, appliance, software, material, or other article—whether used alone or in combination, including the software intended by its manufacturer to be used specifically for diagnostic and/or therapeutic purposes and necessary for its proper application—intended by the manufacturer to be used for human beings for the purpose of.

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Michael Woodford (executive)

Michael Christopher Woodford, MBE (born) is a British businessman who was formerly president and COO (April 2011) and CEO (October 2011) of Olympus Corporation, a Japan-based manufacturer of optics and reprography products.

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Micro Four Thirds system

The Micro Four Thirds system (MFT or M4/3) is a standard released by Olympus and Panasonic in 2008, for the design and development of mirrorless interchangeable lens digital cameras, camcorders and lenses.

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Microcassette

The Microcassette (often written generically as microcassette) is an audio storage medium, introduced by Olympus in 1969.

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Microscope

A microscope (from the μικρός, mikrós, "small" and σκοπεῖν, skopeîn, "to look" or "see") is an instrument used to see objects that are too small to be seen by the naked eye.

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Mirrorless interchangeable-lens camera

A mirrorless interchangeable lens camera (MILC) features a single, removable lens and uses a digital display system rather than an optical viewfinder.

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Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group

is a Japanese bank holding / financial services company headquartered in Chiyoda, Tokyo, Japan.

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Money laundering

Money laundering is the act of concealing the transformation of profits from illegal activities and corruption into ostensibly "legitimate" assets.

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Mount Olympus

Mount Olympus (Όλυμπος Olympos, for Modern Greek also transliterated Olimbos, or) is the highest mountain in Greece.

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MUFG Bank

is the largest bank in Japan.

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Nikon

(or), also known just as Nikon, is a Japanese multinational corporation headquartered in Tokyo, Japan, specializing in optics and imaging products.

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Nippon Life

, also known as or is the largest Japanese life insurance company by revenue.

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Nondestructive testing

Nondestructive testing or non-destructive testing (NDT) is a wide group of analysis techniques used in science and technology industry to evaluate the properties of a material, component or system without causing damage.

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Olympus E-5

The Olympus E-5 is Olympus Corporation's flagship camera, positioned as a professional DSLR camera.

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Olympus OM system

The Olympus OM System (O.

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Olympus Pen

The Pen series is a family of half-frame cameras made by Olympus from 1959 to the beginning of the 1980s.

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Olympus scandal

The Olympus scandal was precipitated on 14 October 2011 when British-born Michael Woodford was suddenly ousted as chief executive of international optical equipment manufacturer Olympus Corporation.

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Optics

Optics is the branch of physics which involves the behaviour and properties of light, including its interactions with matter and the construction of instruments that use or detect it.

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Reprography

Reprography is the reproduction of graphics through mechanical or electrical means, such as photography or xerography.

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Resignation

A resignation is the formal act of giving up or quitting one's office or position.

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Revenge

Revenge is a form of justice enacted in the absence or defiance of the norms of formal law and jurisprudence.

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Sankei Shimbun

, literally "Industrial and Economic Newspaper", is a daily newspaper in Japan published by the.The Sankei is abbreviation name of Sangyō Keizai.

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Secure Digital

Secure Digital (SD) is a non-volatile memory card format developed by the SD Card Association (SDA) for use in portable devices.

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Serious Fraud Office (United Kingdom)

The Serious Fraud Office (SFO) is a non-ministerial government department of the Government of the United Kingdom department that investigates and prosecutes serious or complex fraud and corruption in England, Wales and Northern Ireland.

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Shinjuku

is a special ward in Tokyo, Japan.

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Skin care

Skin care is the range of practices that support skin integrity, enhance its appearance and relieve skin conditions.

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SmartMedia

SmartMedia is a flash memory card standard owned by Toshiba, with capacities ranging from 2 MB to 128 MB.

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Snowball effect

Metaphorically, a snowball effect is a process that starts from an initial state of small significance and builds upon itself, becoming larger (graver, more serious), and also perhaps potentially dangerous or disastrous (a vicious circle), though it might be beneficial instead (a virtuous circle).

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Sony

is a Japanese multinational conglomerate corporation headquartered in Kōnan, Minato, Tokyo.

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Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation

is a Japanese multinational banking and financial services company headquartered in Yurakucho, Chiyoda, Tokyo, Japan.

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Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group

is a Japanese bank holding / financial services company established by Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation, the second largest bank in Japan by market value (as of November 2009).

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Tableware

Tableware are the dishes or dishware used for setting a table, serving food and dining.

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Takama-ga-hara

is a place in Japanese mythology.

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The Daily Telegraph

The Daily Telegraph, commonly referred to simply as The Telegraph, is a national British daily broadsheet newspaper published in London by Telegraph Media Group and distributed across the United Kingdom and internationally.

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The Japan Times

The Japan Times is Japan's largest and oldest English-language daily newspaper.

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Thermometer

A thermometer is a device that measures temperature or a temperature gradient.

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Thomson Reuters

Thomson Reuters Corporation is a Canadian multinational mass media and information firm.

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Tobashi scheme

A tobashi scheme is a financial fraud where a client's losses are hidden by an investment firm by shifting them between the portfolios of other (genuine or fake) clients.

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Tokyo

, officially, is one of the 47 prefectures of Japan and has been the capital since 1869.

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United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain,Usage is mixed with some organisations, including the and preferring to use Britain as shorthand for Great Britain is a sovereign country in western Europe.

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United States

The United States of America (USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a federal republic composed of 50 states, a federal district, five major self-governing territories, and various possessions.

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Valuation (finance)

In finance, valuation is the process of determining the present value (PV) of an asset.

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Variable Control Voice Actuator

The term Variable Control Voice Actuator (VCVA) refers to a digital recording technology developed by Olympus, which is implemented in many of their digital voice recorders.

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Whistleblower

A whistleblower (also written as whistle-blower or whistle blower) is a person who exposes any kind of information or activity that is deemed illegal, unethical, or not correct within an organization that is either private or public.

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Wrongful dismissal

In law, wrongful dismissal, also called wrongful termination or wrongful discharge, is a situation in which an employee's contract of employment has been terminated by the employer, where the termination breaches one or more terms of the contract of employment, or a statute provision or rule in employment law.

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X-ray fluorescence

X-ray fluorescence (XRF) is the emission of characteristic "secondary" (or fluorescent) X-rays from a material that has been excited by bombarding with high-energy X-rays or gamma rays.

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XD-Picture Card

xD-Picture Card is a flash memory card format, used in digital cameras made by Olympus and Fujifilm.

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Yakuza

, also known as, are members of transnational organized crime syndicates originating in Japan.

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Yoshihisa Maitani

Yoshihisa Maitani (January 8, 1933 – July 30, 2009) was a designer of cameras for Olympus Corporation.

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Zuiko

Zuiko is a brand of optical lenses made by Olympus Corporation that was used up to and including the Four Thirds system era.

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4K resolution

4K resolution, also called 4K, refers to a horizontal screen display resolution in the order of 4,000 pixels.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olympus_Corporation

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