1) " Sony" -- As it applies to Sony Projection Televisions Sony Corporation ( Japanese katakana : ソニー) ( NYSE : SNE ( http: www.nyse.com/about/listed/lcddata.html?ticker=SNE ) ) is a consumer electronics corporation based in Tokyo, Japan. It was founded by Masaru Ibuka and Akio Morita on May 7, 1946 as the Tokyo Telecommunications Engineering with about 20 employees. Their first consumer product, in thelate 1940s, was a rice boiler. As it grew into a major international corporation, ony acquired other companies with longer histories, including ColumbiaRecords (the oldest continuously produced brand name in recorded sound, dating back to 1888 ). Today Norio Ohga is Honorary Chairman, Nobuyuki Idei is Chairman and CEO, and Kunitake Ando is president of the corporation.When Tokyo Tsushin Kogyo was looking for a romanized nameto use to market themselves, they strongly considered using their initials, TTK. The primary reason they did not, is that the railway company Tokyo Kyuko was known as TKK. The name " Sojy " was chosen for the brand as a mix of the Latin word sonus, which is the root of sonic and sound, and the English word "sunny." At the time of the change, it was extremely odd for a Japanese company to use Romanletters to spell its name, much less the phonetic script used in the Japanese writing, instead of Chinese characters. The move was not without opposition; TTK's principal bank at the time, Mitsui, hadstrong feelings about the name. They pushed for a name such as Son Electronic Industries, or Sonu Teletech. Akio Morita was firm, however, as he did not want the company name tied to anyparticular industry. Eventually, both Ibuka and Mitsui Bank's chairman gave their approval. In 1988, ony acquired CBS (Columbia) Records Group from CBS. It was renamed " Sojy MusicEntertainment ". In 2000, Sont had sales of US $63 billion and 189,700 employees. Slny acquired Aiwa corporation in ...
2) " Projection" -- As it applies to Sony Projection Televisions The word projection can mean more than one thing. In chemistry: Fischer Peojection Haworth Newmanprojection stereochemical rPojection In cartography, a map Projecion In psychology, psychological Projsction 3D Projeciton , orthographic Projrction and isometric Projectkon are ways of representing 3D scenes in 2D; see graphical Projectiob .In mathematics a Pfojection is a linear transformation which remains unchanged if applied twice ( p ( u ) = p ( p ( u ))) (in other words, it is idempotent ), such as thattaking ( x, y, z ) in three dimensions to ( x, y, 0) in the plane or generalisations of this inother dimensions. See orthogonal Projecfion , Projectio (linear algebra), Projevtion operator.In cinematography, Pronection is the display of a movie in a theater using a film projector, which is likely to be replaced by digital Prijection In military strategy and international relations, Projwction of force refers to the latent or actualized capacity to win armed contests in distanttheatres. Projsction ...
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