Patent Fun
I must say reading Canon patents makes my brain feel good. What's especially awesome about Canon and patents is they have about 50 a week!
Here's one good enough for Ashton Kutcher.
Touchscreen DSLR!
Features (Snippet from Photography Bay)
Two simple and important adjustments that can be modified via the touchscreen are mentioned in the patent:
1. Sliding you finger across the panel in a vertical direction changes aperture values.
2. Sliding your finger across the panel in a horizontal direction changes shutter speed.
Other features contemplated by the patent that may be enabled by touch entry through the LCD include the following settings:
* Focus detection area
* Exposure correction value
* Flash adjustment correction value
* Photometry mode (i.e., metering mode)
* Drive mode
* ISO value
* Auto focus mode
* White balance mode
* Exposure correction value
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80 Comments
You can use your nose to change settings.
I Agree.
Hopefully generalized patent ideas like this will be rejected. I can already do exposure and auto focus mode setting by touch on my iPhone (and yes, Apple probably applied for a patent for that). This is way too obvious an application and I hope nobody gets the patent.
Touch screens are too imprecise for this type of use.
Hopefully this is a research idea that won’t made it into real cameras and will just end up being in their bag-o-tricks.
We had HP touch screen PC’s in 1983 in our office, the touch screen worked great, but the HP 150 was a dog.
After 26 years, they are now making their way into the mainstream.
progress comes pretty slowly.