Popular brand Canon has published a patent in Japan for the design of a camera enclosed in a box. This design looks quite strange. A US patent for the same design was published in 2021.
The title of that American camera patent was ‘Imaging Device’. The camera looks like a rectangular box. Some special features of this camera have been mentioned.
These features are High-frame rate, high resolution, large-sized sensor, etc. CCD and CMOS type sensors are used here. The same application was recently published in the Japan Patent Office.
Although the application is in Japanese, it can be confirmed that it is the exact same application published by the US Patent Office. The Japanese application was published 1.5 years after the US application.
However, Canon is going to bring a camera of this type to the market. One of the strangest things about this patent is the many similarities between the described camera and RED Digital Cinema’s Comodo compact action camera.
Everything looks the same, including the buttons, media, screen and even the battery location. It looks like there is some sort of partnership between RED and Canon here.
Many things may have happened inside which are not revealed outside. Comodo cameras had RF Mount and RF Lens. Perhaps RED and Canon are going through a complicated licensing process.