Canon is taking new flights this year. The company had a challenging release in 2024, but it appears they are keen on proving themselves to photographers. How so? They have filed a new patent that may change how we look at fisheye lenses.
The thermal hurdles engineers must overcome become even more significant as cameras get increasingly more robust video recording features. A new Canon camera patent hopes to overcome these concerns through a relatively compact active cooling system to keep internal recording media cool. [Read More]
This patent application (Japan 2023-125903) has a lot of esoteric fast zoom lenses in some very nontraditional focal lengths. Many of the embodiments are missing the image height, however since we also have the half angle of view, we can work backward to verify if these lenses are meant for full frame or for APS-C.
In this Japan Patent Application, JP 2023-118490, Canon is investigating creating smaller built in teleconverters for use in lenses that we would normally not expect to see a teleconverter installed in.
It's been a few years since we first started reporting on the possibility of an affordable “box” style cinema camera from Canon. For a while we were running with the name Canon Cinema EOS C50.
Here is an interesting patent that we never thought we’d see from Canon. This one is for a “selfie stick” with all sorts of controls. Read more... The post Patent: Canon takes the selfie stick to the next level appeared first on Canon Rumors - Your best source for Canon rumors, leaks and gossip.
A new patent showing off some lens element coating to help with ghosting and other anomalies has appeared alongside optical formulas for what appears to Read more. . . The post Patent: Optical formulas for a trio of wide f/1.
Keith over at Northlight Images uncovered a pretty cool patent pertaining to cooling of camera bodies. A lot has been discussed about this topic over Read more... The post Patent: Internal liquid cooling of camera body appeared first on Canon Rumors - Your best source for Canon rumors, leaks and gossip.
Canon appears to be working on some very fast zoom lenses for the RF mount. I’m not sure any of these optical formulas will lead Read more... The post Patent: Canon presents some interesting fast zoom lens optical formulas appeared first on Canon Rumors - Your best source for Canon rumors, leaks and gossip.
It looks like Canon will be bringing one or more RF-S prime lenses for the Canon EOS R7 and Canon EOS R10. One of the Read more... The post Patent: Canon RF APS-C pancake prime lens optical formulas appeared first on Canon Rumors - Your best source for Canon rumors, leaks and gossip.
Canon may be interested in the consumer drone market as it has designed a gimbal system for a small camera for use on a small quadcopter. [Read More]
It was inevitable that Canon would be bringing at least one big super telephoto zoom lens like the EF 200-400mm f/4L IS USM 1.4x to Read more... The post Patent: Impressive super telephoto L zoom lenses for the RF mount appeared first on Canon Rumors - Your best source for Canon rumors, leaks and gossip.
Canon News has uncovered a Canon patent showing off some focal reducers in their latest round of patents. This patent is for RF mount Cinema Read more... The post Patent: Focal reducers for RF cinema applications appeared first on Canon Rumors - Your best source for Canon rumors, leaks and gossip.
It would make sense that we would see a ton of Canon f1. 2 prime lenses. They already have two variants of the 85mm, and then there's the 50mm option. We recently wrote about the dream of a 35mm f1.
Here is an interesting patent application showcasing what appears to be new design and functionality of an integrated grip mirrorless camera body. At this time, Read more... The post Patent: A new mirrorless camera body design with integrated grip with pass-through appeared first on Canon Rumors - Your best source for Canon rumors, leaks and gossip.
Canon News has uncovered a detailed patent showing what looks to be a compact shutter assembly for a small form factor RF mount camera. This Read more... The post Patent: A compact shutter assembly for a small form factor RF mount ILC appeared first on Canon Rumors - Your best source for Canon rumors, leaks and gossip.
Update on this patent translation from Canon News: Every now and then we post a patent application and make mistakes on assumptions with the Japanese Read more... The post Patent: A sensor protection assembly for a small form factor RF mount ILC appeared first on Canon Rumors - Your best source for Canon rumors, leaks and gossip.
Looking into the patents registered by camera manufacturers can be a double-edged sword. On one hand, you have the excitement and hope of an upcoming product release. On the other, complete confusion over why a company would file a patent for something which isn’t in demand.
Canon News has uncovered a patent that shows how Canon plans to add eye control focus technology in the upcoming Canon EOS R3 EVF. From Read more... The post Patent: Eye-control focus in an EVF, this will appear in the Canon EOS R3 appeared first on Canon Rumors - Your best source for Canon rumors, leaks and gossip.
Northlight Images has uncovered an interesting patent that deals with reducing the need for an AA filter. This patent shows a technique to use the Read more... The post Patent: Using image sensor shift to reduce the need for an AA filter appeared first on Canon Rumors - Your best source for Canon rumors, leaks and gossip.
The Canon EOS R3 will come with eye-controlled autofocus, made most famous by the film camera, the EOS 3. There have likely been a few Read more... The post Patent: Canon shows off some information about the eye-controlled AF point selection appeared first on Canon Rumors - Your best source for Canon rumors, leaks and gossip.
Canon News has uncovered a patent that shows a touch panel on the barrel of a lens. The touch panel in this patent would take Read more... The post Patent: Touch panel on camera lenses appeared first on Canon Rumors - Your best source for Canon rumors, leaks and gossip.
Canon has published a patent showing a series of fast prime lenses for camera bodies equipped with a curved sensor. The only way to get Read more... The post Patent: Fast prime lenses for curved image sensors appeared first on Canon Rumors - Your best source for Canon rumors, leaks and gossip.
HiLowsNote has uncovered an odd patent showing us a full-frame fixed lens camera lens optical formula. The lens design here is not impressive, as it’s Read more... The post Patent: Full-Frame fixed lens camera appeared first on Canon Rumors - Your best source for Canon rumors, leaks and gossip.
I reported earlier this month that Canon would make an EF-M related announcement in 2021, even after telling you about the imminent demise of the Read more... The post Patent: The Canon vlogging camera appears in another patent appeared first on Canon Rumors - Your best source for Canon rumors, leaks and gossip.
Keith over at Northlight Images has uncovered a USPTO patent that shows eye-controlled focus for mirrorless cameras. This has been a requested feature for quite Read more... The post Patent: The return of eye-controlled focus, but for mirrorless cameras appeared first on Canon Rumors - Your best source for Canon rumors, leaks and gossip.
Canon News has uncovered more patents relating to the vlogging style ILC that follows the release of patents last month about the same product. This Read more... The post Patent: More patents related to a new style of ILC from Canon appeared first on Canon Rumors.
Richard at Canon News has uncovered a patent showing a better wiring layout for shoulder mount Cinema EOS cameras. The best part of the patent Read more...
Canon News has uncovered a pretty interesting and pretty in-depth set of patents for what looks to be an interchangeable lens gimbal style camera, though Read more...
Canon News has uncovered a pretty interesting and pretty in-depth set of patents for what looks to be an interchangeable lens gimbal style camera, though Read more...
Canon News has uncovered a very interesting patent by Canon. This one looks at potentially replacing the modern shutter button as we know it. … Read more...
A dedicated macro lens for the RF mount is definitely needed and is obviously on the roadmap. Here we have an optical formula for an Read more...
A new Canon Japan patent shows the optical formulas for various RF 50mm f/1.4 designs as well as an RF 35mm f/1.4. This patent deals Read more...
Canon continues to work on new zoom lens ideas for the RF mount according to this JPO patent, I can only see one lens below Read more...
Canon News uncovered a patent showing some very strange optical formulas, they’re strange because of the back focus distance. The optical formulas in this patent Read more...
Canon News posted about a patent recently about actively cooling an RF mount camera with an adapter. In this patent, it’s a cooling EF to Read more...
Northlight has uncovered a patent showing a pop-up viewfinder for PowerShot cameras, which also includes an eye-detection sensor. It appears that this development will allow Read more...
Keith over at Northlight-Images has uncovered a patent that showcases some of the capabilities of the RF mount as related to accessories such as extenders, Read more...
In a patent uncovered by Canon News, it appears Canon is continuing the development of EF telephoto lenses. This patent is related to the focusing Read more...
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Canon News has uncovered a patent showing a mirrorless camera with an LCD display that nearly covers the entire rear of the camera. This patent Read more...
Canon obviously needs some “affordable” prime and zoom lenses for the RF mount, and a few JPO patent applications seem to suggest we’re getting closer Read more...
Canon News has uncovered a complex and interesting optical formula patent from Canon, this one is for an RF 35mm f/1.4 Soft Focus lens design. Read more...
Every so often we see new big white lens patents, and this time we get another round of designs for the EF mount. There doesn’t Read more...
According to a recently unearthed patent, Canon is actively working on shrinking the size of a full-frame mirrorless camera. We know that Canon is going Read more...
Canon News has uncovered a patent that discusses cooling modular cinema cameras. As we’ve previously reported, we expect a lot more modular Cinema EOS cameras Read more...
It’s no surprise anymore that IBIS is coming to future EOS R cameras, and possibly a Canon DSLR. This patent is an extremely detailed view Read more...
Canon News has uncovered a patent that shows an 83mp full-frame image sensor from Canon. If you scale up the new 32.5mp APS-C sensor to Read more...
Canon News has uncovered a patent showing how to increase dynamic range using DPAF equipped sensors. Here’s a breakdown of Canon Japan Patent Application 2019-129491: The Read more...
Is Canon preparing to return a feature from the days of the EOS-3? The feature being eye-controlled autofocus. A patent uncovered by Canon News shows us Read more...
Canon has filed a patent in Japan that shows what appears to be a compact built-in teleconverter that relies upon external controls and internal actuators to provide photographers with quick access to various focal lengths. [Read More]
Canon has patented a design for a ferrous liquid-cooled mirrorless camera. The designs indicate that the liquid would be moved around the inside of the camera using a series of magnets. [Read More]
Canon has filed a patent for a system that expands the battery indicator of a camera to also display the remaining life of a connected USB-C battery supply. According to the patent document, this update will show both the internal (normal) battery charge state along with the battery percentage of the external connected power supply […]
A patent recently that was recently unearthed purports to show a high-end drone camera that Olympus has been working on. PetaPixel has obtained the full patent application, which describes a camera system that would feature a high-end zoom lens and high-performance sensor.
A recently unearthed patent purports to show, in detail, exactly how Canon plans to improve on sensor-based in-body image stabilization for its upcoming full-frame mirrorless cameras and DSLRs. The patent application was uncovered by the folks over at Canon News, and it’s detailed enough to believe that this is the unit we’ll be seeing in […]
Want to process your iPhone photos for Instagram on a laptop without having to transfer any files? In the future there may be a crazy new way you can do so. Apple has patented a new “accessory” that transforms a cell phone into a full-fledged laptop. Filed in September 2016 and published on March 23, […]
According to a new report, Apple is considering putting infrared cameras into future models of its popular AirPods wireless earbuds. [Read More]
Thanks to improvements in sensor design, iPhone and Android smartphones are gaining traction with enthusiast and professional creators. However, one area that has lagged behind developments in imaging sensors is image stabilization.
A newly discovered Canon patent illustrates the lengths that companies are considering when it comes to cooling the latest and greatest camera gear. In this case: a detachable fan that replaces the optical viewfinder of a 1D X-like DSLR.