Canon Eyes Nikon's Popular Compact Telephoto Lenses With New Patents

Striking a balance between size, weight, cost, and performance.

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Canon Patent Addresses Increasing Thermal Demands of Video Recording

Canon aims to keep its cool.

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Canon Files Patents for Five Unique Zoom Lenses

Wildlife and sports photographers are crossing their fingers that these new patents become reality.

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Canon Patents a Triple-Layer High-Speed Stacked Image Sensor

More sensor layers, please.

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Canon’s new patent uses AI to optically zoom a lens instead of you

Canon has recently patented new technology that lets you zoom the camera’s lens automatically. It’s made to be AI-operated, and it zooms the lens on your behalf to help you reframe the shot. Digicame-info picked up the news first and reported on the features of Canon’s latest patent. It automatically detects the subject of your […]

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Canon Patents AI That Optically Zooms a Lens to Reframe Photos

AI combined with optical zoom

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Canon patents drone gimbal but this one might be for us photographers and filmmakers

Canon isn’t a name we normally associate with drones, but a new drone gimbal camera patent suggests they might be starting to try to take on the consumer drone market. If they are planning to tackle the likes of DJI and Autel, Canon does have some experience with drones. This isn’t their first one, having […]

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Canon patents new electromagnetic shutter design to minimise "shutter shock" vibrations

In the days of DSLRs, even when your camera was on a tripod, it was possible to get a little motion blur in your shots due to what we called “mirror slap”. In these mirrorless days, mirror slap isn’t really a thing anymore, but there is a chance that the vibrations from the shutter can […]

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Canon's Quad Pixel Could Be the Next Big Thing

Canon has filed another patent for Quad Pixel Autofocus technology. But, is this what Canon's system needs?

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