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Jon Clemens, Ph.D is the leader of Sharp Technology Ventures, an organization created to commercialize innovations and technologies developed at Sharp Laboratories of America. Dr. Clemens served as president and chief executive officer at Sharp Labs from the organization's founding until his retirement in 2003.  

During his tenure at Sharp Labs, Dr. Clemens grew the lab to include more than 275 employees. He structured the lab's research and development teams around the key areas of applied research that provided Sharp Corporation the most opportunity for innovation and market leadership in North America. These include six core departments, which over the past eight years have contributed directly to Sharp's category leadership in its product lines, including those for liquid crystal display-based televisions, mobile phones, communications devices and software.  

Prior to his leadership at Sharp Labs, Dr. Clemens held executive positions with other premier research organizations, including Sarnoff Corporation, SRI International, and RCA.

Contributing Researchers for Sharp Technology Ventures

Additional support for Sharp Technology Ventures comes from the researchers and staff at Sharp Labs, who bring with them several hundred patents for technologies and processes. These individuals include:

Ibrahim Sezan, Director of the Information Systems Technologies Department at Sharp Laboratories of America. Dr. Sezan's department has been developing technologies for automated recognition of audiovisual content, information management, smart imaging and projection systems and display algorithms based on the human visual system. Sharp Technology Ventures' HiMPACT Sports was developed by a group of researchers in his department.

Prior to joining Sharp Labs, Dr. Sezan was with Eastman Kodak Research Laboratories, Rochester, NY, where he was a founding leader of the Motion and Video Processing Technology Area in the Imaging Research and Advanced Development Laboratories. He has also held an adjunct professor position at the University of Rochester.  

Dr. Sezan is a Fellow of the IEEE. He was the co-recipient of the A. B. Du Mont award at the Renssealaer Polytechnic Institute in 1984 for outstanding academic achievement, and he has served as the Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging and IEEE Transactions on Image Processing. He has also served as a member of the IEEE Image and Multidimensional Digital Signal Processing Committee of the IEEE Signal Processing Society. Dr. Sezan has edited or contributed to several books and authored papers in the fields of digital image restoration, digital image and video processing, analysis and compression. He received his Ph.D. and M.S. degrees in Electrical and Computer Systems Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY. He is currently the holder of 25 U.S. Patents.