Category Archives: Nikon Patents

Nikon is being sued for alledgedly infringing four patents related to digital camera technology

By [NR] admin | Published: October 28, 2011

Bloomberg reports that Intellectual Ventures LLC has sued Nikon for patent infringement on four different digital camera technology patents: “IV said it initially approached Nikon in 2008 about taking a license to the patents. Nikon declined to meet with the technology-licensing company at that time, according to court papers. In 2011, IV said it made [...]

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Nikon’s patent for a 800mm f/5.6 lens

By [NR] admin | Published: October 9, 2011

Nikon filed a patent 2011197413 in Japan for a 800mm f/5.6 lens: Patent publication: 2011-197413 Patent release date: October 6th, 2011 Patent filing date: March 19, 2010 Focal length: 800.00mm Aperture: 5.61 Image height: 21.60mm Lens design: 16 elements in 14 groups Internal focus Image stabilization The longest telephoto in the current Nikon arsenal is the [...]

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The latest Nikon patents

By [NR] admin | Published: September 27, 2011
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Sometimes patents provide valuable information about upcoming products. For example the first Nikon mirrorless patent was reported back in August of 2009 (incl. also a patent for the Nikkor 24mm f/1.4). Here are the most interesting Nikon patents filed since the last recap: Nikon filed a patent application (#20110228407) for a 70-200mm f/4 VR II lens: Nikon 18-300mm [...]

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Nikon 10-100mm f/4.5-5.6 mirrorless lens patent shows up in Japan

By [NR] admin | Published: September 11, 2011

A patent for the 10-100mm f/4.5-5.6 mirrorless lens showed also up in Japan (see US filing): Patent publication: 2011-175098 Published on September 8, 2011 Filed on February 24, 2010 Focal length: 10.3-97.0mm Aperture: 4.6-5.9 Image height: 8mm Lens length: 128.784mm 9.42x zoom ratio One aspherical element Internal zoom Inner focus VR

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The latest Nikon patents

By [NR] admin | Published: August 30, 2011
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Photogrpahybay found this US patent application 20110205636 from Nikon for a 10-100mm f/4.5-5.6 VR lens (27-270mm equivalent) which is probably the super zoom that will be announced with the new mirrorless camera: Patent 2011-085674 filed by Nikon in Japan is for GPS enabled battery grip (there were some rumors several months ago that the D700 replacement may have such GPS [...]

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The latest Nikon patents

By [NR] admin | Published: August 12, 2011

Nikon patent 2011-138044 is for a biological detection system that will sense photographer’s biorhythms (temperature, sweating, blood pressure, heart rate, blood flow) through a sensor on the zoom ring and change the camera setting or even trigger the shutter in certain situations:  

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Picture of Nikon’s mirrorless camera mount

By [NR] admin | Published: July 21, 2011
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Picture of the mount and sensor of upcoming Nikon mirrorless camera named “X810″ leaked on the Chineses forum Xitek: Brief translation (thanks B.): the new mirrorless demo machine is here, temperatly named X810. The user is not going to post pictures of the whole camera due to trade secret and he do not want to [...]

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