A few years (maybe 10 at this point) ago, most if not ALL the major
Japanese
camera manufacturers had to pay multi million dollar fines to Honeywell
for using
their af patents without permission. Olympus was among them.
John
Camtech
PCACala@xxxxxxx wrote:
> Hi all:
>
> I seem to recall that Olympus had to license the patent to one of the
> autofocus methods then developed. I would suppose that it ate up profit and
> they concluded that they couldn't make money competing with the likes of
> Minolta (the technology I recall they licensed), Nikon, Canon, and others.
>
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