Patent ID: 8824882
Filing Date: 2014-09-02
Classification: G03B,H04N

Abstract:
1. A method of synchronizing a remote lighting device to image acquisition of a camera, the camera having a hot shoe connector with a wireless communication device connected thereto, wherein the wireless communication device is not a photographic flash and a photographic flash is not directly connected to the hot shoe connector of the camera, the method comprising: receiving a first request for flash data from the camera at the wireless communication device via the hot shoe connector of the camera; responding to the first request for flash data with response data that mocks information that a photographic flash would provide if the photographic flash were connected to the hot shoe connector, such that the camera continues to provide TTL data via the hot shoe connector to the wireless communication device; receiving a synchronization signal at the wireless communication device via the hot shoe connector of the camera; wirelessly communicating TTL information from the wireless communication device to a remote photographic lighting device, the TTL information being based on the TTL data from the camera body; wirelessly communicating a remote synchronization signal from the wireless communication device to the remote photographic lighting device; and synchronizing the remote photographic lighting device to an image acquisition by the camera using the remote synchronization signal and the TTL information.