New Patent Suggests Canon Cameras May Get Wireless Charging
This is something we’ve sort of seen before and Canon actually showed off a prototype for it back in 2015. But now a new patent has been granted to Canon, according to Canon Watch, for a new wireless charging system. With the catchy title “Power transmission apparatus for wirelessly supplying power to power reception apparatus”, Patent US10375639 describes a method of wirelessly charging cameras from a base station. The abstract for the patent says… In plain English, this means a pair of induction coils (one in the base and another in the camera) and some kind of controller, perhaps an MCU, to regulate the strength of the magnetic field and how much power is transmitted through the air....