Recent patent surfaced over the web shows a Canon Hybrid viewfinder, you can see Canon added a extra display element in the viewfinder that will reflect all required information to the user in eyepiece. Hence user can enjoy the display information in the viewfinder while keeping eye on subject,
Patent details
Description, self-interpretation of the patent literature
- Patent Publication No. 2016-35525
- Published 2016.3.17
- Filing date 2014.8.4
- Canon patent
- During the pentagonal prism and the eyepiece optical system, providing two optical surface inclined
- Since the light from the objective optical system is transmitted through the two optical surfaces, the photographer can observe the object
- Since the light from the display optical system reflects the second optical surface and the first optical surface, the photographer can observe the display information
- Display panel, display the shooting information at the time of the mirror-down, to display a live view image at the time of the mirror-up
