Tag Archives: Patents

The latest Canon patents: 11-24mm f/4 full frame lens and curved aperture diaphragm

By PR admin | Published: January 27, 2014

Canon filed a patent in Japan for a new 11-24mm f/4 ultra wide-angle zoom lens designed for full frame cameras.

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The latest patents from Canon: pancake zoom lenses for EOS-M and full frame tele primes with IS

By PR admin | Published: January 22, 2014

Canon filed patents in Japan for for several new pancake zoom lenses for their EOS-M mirrorless system: 18-40mm f/3.5-5.6 (pancake), 18-55mm f/4-8 (pancake), 10-20mm f/4-5.6 and 9-18mm f/4-5.6. The second Canon patent is for 85mm f/1.8, 100mm f/2 and 135mm f/2.8 full frame lenses with IS (image stabilization)

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The latest patents from Fuji, Canon, Ricoh and Tamron

By PR admin | Published: January 16, 2014

Fuji filed a patent in Japan for a sensor with enlarged sized green pixels: “The human eye is sensitive to luminance noise than the color noise and it is possible to improve the high sensitivity performance and practical to increase the pixel size of the white and green pixels“. Canon filed a patent for automated AF […]

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The latest patents from Panasonic, Konica Minolta and Canon

By PR admin | Published: December 30, 2013

Panasonic filed design patents for a camera that could be the next M43 model in the GF product line.

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The latest patents from Canon: motorized camera mirror flip and 100x zoom lens

By PR admin | Published: December 22, 2013

Canon filed a patent for a motorized camera mirror flip (instead of the spring loaded solution used today). The use of motor will not increase the speed, but reduce the vibrations inside the camera.

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The latest patents from Canon, Olympus and Konica Minolta

By PR admin | Published: December 12, 2013

Canon filed a new patent in Japan for a 200-400mm f/4 and 280-560mm f/5.6 lenses with built-in teleconverter and image stabilization.

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Tamron 10mm f/2.8 fisheye lens and other patents from Konica-Minolta, Olympus and Sony

By PR admin | Published: December 2, 2013

Tamron’s latest patent is for a 10mm f/2.8 and a 10mm f/1.8 fisheye lenses for APS-C based DSLR cameras.

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The latest patents from Canon, Olympus, Ricoh, Sigma and Panasonic

By PR admin | Published: November 17, 2013

→ Canon filed a patent for a camera with a transparent mirror. → Sigma filed a patent for a 300mm f/2.8 APO lens. → Olympus filed a patent for a 250mm f/5 reflex lens for MFT cameras.

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Panasonic filed design patents for new cameras

By PR admin | Published: October 30, 2013

Panasonic filed design patents in Japan for several different camera models (above: classical design). Here is the Panasonic GF design:

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The latest lens patents from Canon, Pentax and Sony

By PR admin | Published: October 22, 2013

The most interesting patent applications this week come from Canon: 6.7mm f/1.4, 3.6mm f/1.2 and 12mm f/1.2 lenses. Canon also filed patents for a 24-70mm f/2.8 IS and 24-80mm f/2.8 IS lenses (full frame).

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