"Canon Inc. is a Japanese multinational company focusing on the manufacture of imaging as well as optical products, including cameras, camcorders, professional display screens, TELEVISION broadcasting and film equipment, projectors, copy machines, photolitography tools (steppers, scanners), computer system printers, photo scanners, field glasses, microscopes, medical equipment (consisting of Computer system Tomography analysis systems, MRI and also analysis ultrasound systems), LCD as well as OLED panel production tools, CCTV options, envisioning sensors, calculators, high accuracy positioning as well as measurement tools (such as rotary encoders), and personalized optical elements (consisting of lenses) for 3rd party companies. It is headquartered in Ōta, Tokyo, Japan.

Canon has a primary listing on the Tokyo Stock Exchange as well as 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 instance, Canon IT Solutions Inc. "