Richard CanonNews / Thursday, September 3, 2020 / Categories: Reviews, Third Party Reviews 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: Canon IBIS enhancement In this patent application, Canon is looking at now taking their IBIS unit and making it smaller - could this be then for the EOS-M system that requires smaller cameras? It's possible. It's also possible that this was necessary for the R5 and R6 manufacturing as well. An object of the present invention is to provide an image blur correction device that can be downsized in a direction orthogonal to the optical axis. One of the issues with IBIS is that it tends to increase the thickness and also the amount of volume required inside of the camera, and those things are packed as tightly as possible. Since it's usually impossible to shrink things down further, the camera size must increase. In this patent application, Canon is looking at decreasing the width and height of the IBIS unit. The camera illustration shows a DSLR, however, that in the past is simply a placeholder illustration, and never "proof" that it may end up in a DSLR. It's just there to show a camera. Japan Patent Application 2020-140104 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 Related articles Patent Application: Lens Auto-Aperture Control Patent Application for Canon RF 16-28mm F2.8, 16-28mm F2.8-4 and 16-28mm F4 designs Canon Patent Application: High Magnification Super Telephoto Zooms Canon Patent Application: Curious Catadioptric Optical System Canon Patent Application: Drone Camera Assembly Previous Article Canon Patent Application: Another stacked image sensor patent Next Article Canon Patent Application: Canon Stereoscopic lens Print Tags: Canon Patent ApplicationIBIS Please login or register to post comments.