System and method for maintaining hot shoe communications between a camera and a wireless device
US7783188B2 · kind B2 · utility
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| Filing date | May 29, 2008 |
| Grant date | Aug 24, 2010 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Feb 17, 2029 |
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- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG03B2215/056
- WIPO fieldAudio-visual technology
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
A system and method for serially communicating actual flash data related to a remote lighting device to a camera body via a hot shoe connector. In one example, a wireless communication device connected to the hot shoe connector of the camera body receives a request for a flash data from the camera body via the hot shoe connector. The wireless communication device responds via the hot shoe with actual information from one or more remote light devices.
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