Canon Patent for 10-120mm f/1.8 Lens for 1″ Sensor Camera

Canon filed a new patent in Japan. The new patent describes the 10-120mm f/1.8 lens which looks like to be a new lens for 1-inch type sensor Canon cameras.

Currently the Canon XC10 digital camcorder which combines advanced 4K video recording with capable still shooting uses a 12-megapixel 1″ CMOS sensor and a fixed F2.8-5.6 image stabilized lens equivalent to 27.3-273mm for videos and 24.1-241mm for stills.

So at the moment we can only say this might be a lens for the replacement model for the XC10 or a high-end PowerShot compact camera.

Canon 10-120mm f/1.8 Lens Patent

• Patent Publication No. 2015-75523
  • Published 2015.4.20
  • Filing date 2013.10.7
• Example 1
  • Zoom ratio 11.54
  • Focal length 10.21 56.31 117.88
  • F-number 1.87 1.79 1.78
  • Half angle (in degrees) 38.07 8.09 3.88
  • Image height 8.00
  • Overall length of the lens 555.0
  • BF 16.56
• Canon patents
  • 5-group zoom of positive and negative TadashiTadashiTadashi
  • Inner focus (part of the first group)
  • Inner zoom

via Egami