Category Archives: Nikon Patents

Nikon patents for this week

By [NR] admin | Published: October 29, 2009

Nikon patent applications published (made available to the public) this week: Lens system: if I am not mistaken this patent appears to be for a zoom lens with 7-24mm focal length, maybe for a point and shoot camera: Electronic device (built-in GPS): the figure shows a point and shoot camera that besides geotagging also displays a map on […]

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It’s a Nikon patents Friday (Nikon mirrorless, interchangeable lens camera)

By [NR] admin | Published: October 16, 2009

I’ve been covering Nikon patents for a while. We have seen numerous times that patents for upcoming products are filed before the official release – check this old post: We should pay a very close attention to this patent (Nikon Micro AF-S 85mm f/3.5 DX VR). Of course not every patent will see the light of day. So […]

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Nikon’s patents for the week (Nikon AF-S 85mm f/1.4 VR)

By [NR] admin | Published: October 2, 2009

Some readers have already noticed that patent 20090244724 is for a 85mm f/1.4 lens with VR: For comparison, the current Nikkor 85mm f/1.4 model: According to the patent application this lens will have VR: “A lens group or a portion of a lens group may be shifted in a direction perpendicular to the optical axis as a vibration […]

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We should pay a very close attention to this patent (Nikon Micro AF-S 85mm f/3.5 DX VR)

By [NR] admin | Published: August 17, 2009

We should pay a very close attention to Nikon patent 20090190220 (already discussed here and here) for the Nikon AF-S 85mm f/3.5 DX VR lens 😉 Don’t ask me why – just do it… Update: as a reader already noted (quote from the patent application): “An internal focus type MACRO lens having an image blur correction […]

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More Nikon patents

By [NR] admin | Published: August 11, 2009

More Nikon patent applications became public in the past few days. Here is what I found to be interesting : Illuminating device for photographing and camera – a LED based flash? “An illuminating unit having a plurality of light emitting elements with axes of illuminating light fluxes from the plurality of light emitting elements different […]

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More Nikon patents – hint for a mirrorless Nikon camera?

By [NR] admin | Published: August 5, 2009

Nikon filed a bunch of patents at the end of 2008 – here is the patent search result of Nikon + lens. Please note that most of those are just patent applications and may or may not lead to a final production model. The first interesting patent appears to be for a 24mm f/1.4 (application […]

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Nikon continues to push DX lenses? ( new Nikkor 85mm VR DX patent)

By [NR] admin | Published: August 2, 2009

Very busy week – those rumors just won’t stop (check the latest Leica and Sony rumors). Back to Nikon: there is a new Nikon patent for what it appears to be a 85mm VR DX lens. This patent is not yet listed on Google Patents, but can be found here. Maybe somebody more technical than me can interpret […]

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