Canon patent for camera system with translucent mirror and EVF

Canon filed a patent for a camera system with translucent mirror and electronic viewfinder (EVF). Looks like a patent for a technology similar to Sony’s translucent mirror. This is not the first time Canon files a patent referring to a translucent mirror (1 | 2).

• Patent Publication No. 2015-97352
  • Published 2015.5.21
  • Filing date 2013.11.15
• Canon patents
  • Half mirror and the optical path division by
  • One of the light beam received by the image pickup device
  • The other light flux I receive in AF sensor
  • FPS of the AF sensor, faster than the image pickup device
  • Pixel area of ​​the AF sensor is larger than the image pickup device
  • From the AF sensor and the image sensor to obtain an image to be displayed on the EVF or back display

What’s coming next from Canon’s labs?

[via Egami]