"Canon Inc. is a Japanese multinational company specializing in the manufacture of imaging and also optical items, consisting of cams, video cameras, expert displays, TELEVISION broadcasting and movie devices, projectors, photocopiers, photolitography devices (steppers, scanners), computer printers, picture scanners, field glasses, microscopic lens, clinical devices (consisting of Computer Tomography analysis systems, MRI as well as diagnostic ultrasound systems), LCD and also OLED panel production devices, CCTV services, picturing sensing units, calculators, high precision positioning and also measurement devices (such as rotating encoders), and custom-made optical elements (including lenses) for 3rd party companies. It is headquartered in Ōta, Tokyo, Japan.

Canon has a main listing on the Tokyo Stock Exchange and also is a constituent of the TOPIX Core30 as well as Nikkei 225 index. It has an additional listing on the New York Stock Exchange.

Canon Inc. has 383 subsidiaries as of 31 June 2017. The number consists of second-generation subsidiaries, for instance, Canon IT Solutions Inc. "