Patent - of interest?

[David Nelson]

Just found this patent issued (to Pentax Corp) about a month ago (filed 
early 2002) - called "Interchangeable lens with angular velocity sensors".

http://v3.espacenet.com/textdoc?DB=EPODOC&IDX=GB2403021&F=0
Gee that stuff's hard to read... but it seems to deal mainly with 
body-lens communication and control. So do the IS/VR of canon/nikon have 
the sensors in the lenses or the body? Anything interesting in that 
patent? (other than the fact that pentax is working on lens-based image 
stabilisation ("imageshake compensation")?)

BTW - I've been away for the best part of a couple of months - have I 
missed any news/rumours?

Cheers,
David
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