Canon has at the Uspto a patent application filed in which a dslr is touchbediening. In the illustration, the request is to see that the screen contains a lot of icons of wi-fi signal strength and ethernet.
The patent application, on april 4, filed with the U.s. patentenbureau and on 13 October published, includes specifically a method to touch parts of the screen to deactivate. This can prevent accidental camera settings to be changed by unintended touches with the finger. The system also makes use of a proximity sensor.
The top of the screen can thus be used for example for the display of non-interactive elements such as the battery status, the amount of photos that can be taken and the selected aperture value. The lower part of the screen, than as a contextual menu function where the options via touch selected and can be adjusted.
In the patent application, the touch functionality is described with illustrations of consumer dslr’s like the EOS 600D. You may get the successor of that camera is a touchscreen. However, it is not the first time that Canon a touchpatent for cameras submit. So the company submitted in 2009 a patent in parts of a touch screen on the back of a camera to deactivate it, depending on whether the left or right eye is used to look through the viewfinder.
Striking is the fact that in the illustrations the wi-fi icon is visible, as well as an ethernet icon. That could mean that the next EOS-dslr for consumers with both wi-fi and ethernet. The new EOS 1D X professional dslr, which on 18 October announced, is equipped with an ethernet port, but it lacks built-in wi-fi. The current EOS 1100D and EOS 600D have no touchscreen and no wi-fi and ethernet.
