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External photographic wireless communication device

US7885533B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Key dates

Filing dateAug 23, 2010
Grant dateFeb 8, 2011
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Expiry dateAug 23, 2030

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC G)Physics
  • CPC primaryG03B2215/056
  • WIPO fieldAudio-visual technology
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

An external photographic wireless communication device for connection to a camera body having a hot shoe connector for connecting to the camera body and a hot shoe connector for connecting to one or more accessory devices. Each of the hot shoe connectors includes a plurality of contacts. The device includes a switching element for selectively disconnecting one or more of the plurality of contacts in one hot shoe connector from a corresponding respective one of the other hot shoe connector.

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