Patent watch: Ricoh 14mm lens for 4/3 and 19mm for APS-C

Japanese patent-hunting blog Egami (computer-translated) has spotted two recently published Ricoh lens patents. The patents were filed in December 2010, but only now released. The two patented lenses are a 14mm for a 4/3" sensor and a 19mm for an APS-C sensor. Now if we could only get to Ricoh to tell us what they were thinking/planning with those two patents :) [via Ricehigh]