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Olympus on the attack: shows prototype wearable display glasses (think Google Project Glass), July 5, 2012
It looks like perhaps Olympus is making a concentrated effort to beef up its image after it took a beating with the financial kerfuffle. Soon after The Hierarchy revealed that the E-M5 is using a Sony-made sensor and calling it/Sony... Continue

DSLR mini-panic: Apple interchangeable system of sorts for iPhone [patent application; updated], June 18, 2012
Mini-panic on the streets of DSLR-Ville! Apple has filed a patent application (check the PDF file there for diagrams and details) for a situation where a removable back case for the iPhone will allow the user to reconfigure or swap... Continue

Patent watch: Ricoh patents Smart Lens Cap, May 20, 2012
Lens caps have been on the receiving end of many photography and photographer related jokes, but today they strike back! Ricoh has filed a new patent, writes patent-hunting blog Egami (computer-translated), for a lens cap that can absorb impact and... Continue

Pixel-peep this: 3mp Google Project Glass real-world picture (prototype), May 8, 2012
This is turning out to be a very busy day. We now have something almost diametrically opposed to the just-posted Nikon D800 dp+review and the Cameraholic Digest. Google's Project Glass has published a 3-megapixel real-world sample picture taken with prototype... Continue

Patent watch (sensors): Sony hybrid organic & inorganic, April 10, 2012
Japanese patent hunting blog Egami features a Sony sensor patent (computer-translated) that is a hybrid of organic and inorganic material, trying to make the most of the pros of each technology and minimize the cons. The computer-translation describes them as... Continue

Interview with Nokia: low-light, camera shake in focus, March 19, 2012
Amateur Photographer UK has published an interview with Nokia, more specifically with their lead program manager, talking about the new buzz-generating 41-megapixel cameraphone and Nokia's focus on low light and camera shake among other things. We have Bayer-pixels, Foveon-pixels, and... Continue

Panasonic planning camera, smartphone and smart TV interconnectedness, February 29, 2012
dpnow.com was at a Panasonic Europe event where Panasonic teased upcoming developments further interconnecting digital cameras with smartphones and smart TVs. One of the slides shown at dpnow.com promises a future feature: control your camera with a smartphone. Pure speculation:... Continue

Patent watch: Canon 18-45mm f3.5-5.6 lens (29-70mm eq) for mirrorless, February 20, 2012
Japanese patent-hunting blog Egami (computer-translated) has spotted a Canon patent for a 18-45mm f3.5-5.6 lens for APS-C sensors (29-70mm eq) for mirrorless cameras - via/discussion at Canon Rumors As usual, please note that a patent is by no means a... Continue

Patent watch: Canon developing 4K RAW video codec, January 27, 2012
Canon continues to boldly go in the video world. A patent that was published for the world to see recently reveals that Canon is R&Ding (verb) a 4K RAW video codec! Here are the details: + patent (via @LoriCNET) +... Continue

R&D: New math promises up to 10x compresser compression, January 19, 2012
Do your math kids! - it will payoff in the future! A new submitted (not yet published) research paper coming from MIT promises to deliver up to 10x improvements in image compression using Fast Fourrier kind of math. Granted, the... Continue

Patent Wars: Six of the Top 8 US patent winners in 2011 are involved with photography and video, January 11, 2012
The day to day lives of digital cameras have not been affected by the ever-increasing "Patent Wars" at the same level as other consumer electronics products, but the top ten list of US patent winners in 2011 has an interesting... Continue

dpreview talks hybrid organic-CMOS Fuji sensors, December 21, 2011
If you are sensor-curious, dpreview has posted an article on Fuji's research on hybrid organic CMOS sensors. Interestingly, just like backlit CMOS sensors, the Fuji R&D braintrust thinks there is more promise with this technology with smaller size sensors. If... Continue

R&D: MIT system captures light at 1 trillion exposures per second, December 15, 2011
MIT has managed to create yet another geek-viral video with their latest research project that claims to capture light at 1 trillion exposures per second! A magazine-style article at MIT News summarizes their research. For a more detailed and technical... Continue

Fuji mirrorless system pictures leak on the internets!, November 15, 2011
It is not going to be a quiet November! Alleged pictures of the Fuji mirrorless system have leaked on the internets! The pictures were originally posted at the Xitek forums but were since removed. They have been saved at Mirrorless... Continue

Adobe image blur removal demo video now in high-definition - enjoy the Wow! moment, October 17, 2011
It was hard to relate to the audience's digigasm with a blurry audience member's video clip that showed Adobe's (prototype) image blur removal algorithm. But fear not, you can now join the audience in digigasming because Adobe has published a... Continue

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