Richard CanonNews / Thursday, March 18, 2021 / Categories: Canon Patents This post may contain affiliate links(s). An affiliate link means I may earn advertising/referral fees if you make a purchase through my link, without any additional cost to you. It helps to keep this site afloat. Thank you in advance for your support. If you like what we do here, maybe buy me a coffee. Canon Patent Application: Lens with touch panel In this patent application Canon is illustrating a interchangable lens that has a touch panel on the side of the lens in which you'd touch and control with your thumb as you hold the lens and camera. This would be used instead of the focus control ring, to control the focus of the lens. However, I could see this being expanded to also include the ability to choose AF location, as I think that would be brilliant. A technique described in Patent Document 1 is known as a technique in which a user-operable touch panel is provided on an interchangeable lens (lens device) that can be attached to a camera body. The interchangeable lens described in Patent Document 1 is provided with one or two rectangular touch panels extending in the circumferential direction, and focusing or the like is performed by the user operating the touch panels. Japan Patent Application 2021-043294 Richard CanonNewsRichard CanonNews Richard has been using Canon cameras since the 1990s, with his first being the now legendary EOS-3. Since then, Richard has continued to use Canon cameras and now focuses mostly on infrared photography. Richard is the founder and editor of CanonNews since 2017, and has worked as a writer on CanonRumors and other websites in the past. Other posts by Richard CanonNews Contact author Facebook page Previous Article Canon Patent Application: Curved Sensor ultra fast primes Next Article Canon Patent Application: Canon RF 12mm F2.8 and 14mm F2.8 Print Tags: Canon Patent Application Please login or register to post comments.