Olympus is working on predictive AF technology and its name is “Black Magic”, so finally Olympus found a way to implement predictive AF technology in its prime mirrorless camera, more details below…
Patent details below:
Description and self-interpretation of the patent literature
- Patent Publication No. 2014-64194
- Publication date 2014.4.10
- Filing date 2012.9.21
- Olympus patents
- From the orientation of the camera and GPS, I predict the composition of the object
- I want to display the composition predicted
- I used to train
Predictive AF is not new in photography, Canon and Nikon both uses predictive AF Technology in their flagship DSLRs (Canon 1DX and Nikon D4s).