Posts Tagged ‘patent’

Mar
9
2015

Nail in the Coffin? Apple Patent for Zoom Lens Inside iPhone and iPad

Holy crap. The Apple patent is mostly about the mirror, prism and image stabilizer that allow one to rotate the lens elements 90°, but it’s that 90° -- and the accompanying drawings which show an internal zoom lens – that mean point and shoot cameras…
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Jan
19
2015

Apple Scratches an Itch, GoPro Stock Breaks Out in Hives

OK, reading patents is like reading riders to bills passed by Congress these days: impossibly dry, boring beyond belief and purposely inscrutable to all but the select few who will benefit from it. Good thing we have people like Patently Apple and Wall Street to…
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Oct
9
2012

The dark side of LED panels - how the LitePanels LED patent might impact filmmakers

planetMitch note: Simon Baily is reporting on the follow up to an earlier planet5D article about the LitePanels LED lawsuit. In August 2011, Vitec Group, parent company of Litepanels, instituted an International Trade Commission investigation (337-TA-804) that could potentially ban all LED lights except Litepanels. This…
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Jan
26
2012

Canon applies for patent on RAW video?

This was just posted on twitter by @loricnet and I'm posting it to get the word out quickly - I admit that I don't understand it yet, but Canon filed for a patent on "RECORDING SUCCESSIVE FRAMES OF RAW SENSOR DATA DEPICTING A MOVING SCENE"…
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