| Year | Citation | Recipient(s) |
|---|
| 1989 |
for development of the compact disc system |
Heitaro Nakajima (Sony) |
| Johannes Petrus Sinjou (Philips) |
| 1990 | for development of the autofocus camera | Norman L. Stauffer |
| 1991 | for contributions to the development of the charge-coupled device image sensors in consumer video cameras | Gilbert F. Amelio |
| 1992 | for demonstrating technical feasibility of large size color LCD displays suitable for consumer TV applications | Isamu Washizuka (Sharp) |
| 1993 |
for contributions to consumer electronics products employing synthetic speech for education and entertainment |
George L. Brantingham (TI) |
| Paul S. Breedlove (CompuAdd) |
| Richard H. Wiggins (TI) |
| 1994 | for contributions to FM stereophonic and television multichannel sound broadcasting systems | Carl G. Eilers (Zenith) |
| 1995 |
for the Reed-Solomon codes |
Irving S. Reed |
| Gustave Solomon |
| 1996 | for contributions to consumer digital audio and video recording products | Kees A. Schouhamer Immink (Philips) |
| 1997 | for contributions to the development of audio noise reduction and surround sound systems | Ray M. Dolby (Dolby) |
| 1998 | for engineering leadership in the development of digital television for broadcast, cable and satellite applications | Jerrold A. Heller |
| 1999 | for technical leadership in the development of the MPEG international standards for motion video and audio | Leonardo Chiariglione |
| 2000 | for contributions to the development of low-light level, solid-state imagers used in consumer products | Marvin H. White |
| 2001 | for leadership in the development of digital video broadcast | Ulrich Reimers |
| 2002 |
for pioneering contributions to the research and development of HDTV |
Takashi Fujio |
| Kozo Hayashi |
| Masao Sugimoto |
| Masahiko Morizono |
| Yuichi Ninomiya |
| 2003 |
for contributions to the synthesis and analysis of loudspeakers (Thiele/Small parameters) |
Richard H. Small |
| Neville Thiele |
| 2004 | for major contributions to MP3 audio coding | Karlheinz Brandenburg |
| 2005 | No award |
| 2006[4] |
Vestigial sideband |
Wayne Bretl (Zenith) |
| Richard Citta |
| Wayne Luplow (Zenith) |
| 2007 | for contributions in audio and cinema multichannel playback systems (THX) | Tomlinson Holman |
| 2008 | for development of home interactive video games and other toys | Ralph H. Baer |
| 2009 | inventor of the first wireless remote control | Eugene J. Polley (Zenith) |
| 2010 | for contributions to the development and commercialization of digital video recorders | James Barton (TiVo) |
| 2011 | for contributions to image compression in printing technology and digital image processing | Joan Laverne Mitchell (Ricoh) |
| 2012 |
for leadership and technical contributions to H.264/MPEG-4 AVC |
Gisle Bjøntegaard (Tandberg) |
| Gary J. Sullivan (Microsoft) |
| Thomas Wiegand (Fraunhofer) |
| 2013 |
for the development and marketing of spectral band replication at Coding Technologies (now part of Dolby Laboratories) |
Lars Liljeryd |
| Kristofer Kjörling |
| Martin Dietz |
| 2014 | No award |
| 2015 | inventor of the mobile phone | Martin Cooper |
| 2016 |
for designing and building the first digital still camera[5] |
Steven Sasson |
| 2017 |
for pioneering contributions to high-speed Wireless LAN technology |
John O'Sullivan |
| David Skellern |
| Terence Percival |
| 2018 | for his leadership of the development and proliferation of Linux |
Linus Torvalds |
| 2019 |
for accelerating the replacement of 100-year-old analog film technologies used in cinema and television by providing extremely high visual quality using digital-imaging solution |
Tomonori Aoyama |
| Takashi Hayasaka |
| 2020 |
for creating an inexpensive single-board computer and surrounding ecosystem for education and consumer applications (Raspberry Pi) |
Eben C. Upton (Raspberry Pi Foundation) |
| 2021 |
for pioneering the design of consumer-friendly personal computers. |
Steve Wozniak |
| 2022 |
for contributions to the development of image sensors with integrated color filter arrays for digital video and still cameras |
Peter Dillon and Albert Brault |
| 2023 |
for leadership in creating open and free operating systems for embedded computers in consumer electronics. |
Ken Sakamura |
| 2024 |
for the design of the 32-bit ARM RISC microprocessor |
Steve Furber and Sophie Wilson |
| 2025 |
for contributions to the advancement of wearable computing and high dynamic range imaging. |
Steve Mann |
