Current developments in Knowledge Information Control Technology mainly target the manufacturing industry in their drive to maintain consistent production quality. However, this advanced technology is expected to see increasing applications in various other areas as well, in combination with OMRON's variety of sensing technologies. One example is health care. It will soon become a reality for you to have a medical checkup on your PC with the aid of a system that can extract such essential physical data as your height, weight and blood pressure, and then give a comprehensive diagnostic judgment based on this data. Possible uses for communications are also being considered. For instance, by extracting the preferences of each individual, Knowledge Information Control Technology will allow automatic distribution via mobile phone of advertisements or other information tailored to each individual. A study is also underway to upgrade the telephone-use voice recognition system with sound characteristics extraction capability such as for ticket sales. In the future, it may become a matter of course that what you speak over the phone is directly input as text data on the web so that you can check it on screen.

Knowledge Information Control Technology can be described as a technology for incorporating the human mind and brain into machinery. In the same way that babies learn words and develop the ability to make their own decisions as they grow up, it will soon become possible for machinery to make various inferences and judgments by learning from accumulated data and examples of judgments made by people. Knowledge Information Control Technology allows machines to become smarter and more capable of adapting themselves to the demands and requirements of people. The eventual goal we envision through this development is what OMRON calls the "best matching of machines to people."

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