Canon Inc. will invest about 55 billion yen ($451 million) to build a new factory in Japan to double its production capacity of image sensors used in digital cameras.

　　A spokesman for the world's largest digital camera maker said it broke ground in May on a new building on an existing site in Kanagawa Prefecture near Tokyo and expected it to start operations in July 2008.

　　日本佳能公司計劃投資550億日元（約合4.51億美元）在日本建造一家新的生產廠，以提高其數碼相機圖像傳感器的生產能力。

　　佳能的發言人表示，工廠于今年5月在東京附近的神奈川縣動工，預計在2008年7月投入生產。