Kenjiro Takayanagi

Kenjiro Takayanagi (Japanese高 柳 健 次郎; born January 20, 1899 in Hamamatsu, Shizuoka Prefecture, † July 23, 1990 in Yokosuka ) was one of the first developers of televisions in Japan and is therefore considered as the father of Japanese television.

Biography

Born in Hamamatsu 1899 Kenjiro Takayanagi began in 1925 with research on possibilities of image transmission. First, he developed a system similar to John Logie Baird, the scanned an object with a Nipkow disk and its image as converted into electrical signals. In 1926 he represented was a guest at the Higher technical Hamamatsu, a predecessor institution of the University of Shizuoka, the first Japanese black and white TV. He managed the first electronic transmission of images with a cathode ray tube on the sending and receiving side. He was the first to transmit the katakanaイusing a Braun tube. This was some months before Philo Farnsworth demonstrated his first all-electronic television on September 7, 1927 in San Francisco, who did not need Nipkow disk.

Later, Takayanagi achieved the first electronic transmission of a human face. He worked with the construction of NHK and JVC later, he temporarily as Vice President initiated. He was also involved in the development of color television and the video cassette.

Kenjiro Takayanagi 1980 became the Bunka Kōrōsha, the person with special cultural merits, appointed in 1989 and awarded the Order of the Sacred Treasure.

He died in 1990 of pneumonia.