"Canon Inc. is a Japanese international firm focusing on the manufacture of imaging and also optical items, including video cameras, video cameras, expert displays, TV broadcasting and also movie devices, projectors, copy machines, photolitography devices (steppers, scanners), computer printers, picture scanners, field glasses, microscopic lens, medical equipment (consisting of Computer system Tomography diagnostic systems, MRI as well as analysis ultrasound systems), LCD as well as OLED panel production tools, CCTV options, imagining sensors, calculators, high accuracy positioning and measurement devices (such as rotary encoders), and personalized optical elements (consisting of lenses) for third party companies. It is headquartered in Ōta, Tokyo, Japan.

Canon has a key listing on the Tokyo Stock Market and also is a constituent of the TOPIX Core30 and also Nikkei 225 index. It has a secondary 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 example, Canon IT Solutions Inc. "