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TTL photographic wireless communication system and method with exposure compensation value transfer to a remote lighting device

  • US 9,250,499 B2
  • Filed: 08/28/2014
  • Issued: 02/02/2016
  • Est. Priority Date: 05/29/2007
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method of synchronizing a remote lighting device to image acquisition of a camera, the camera having a hot shoe connector with an external device capable of wireless communication connected to the hot shoe connector, the external device including a radio frequency transmitter for wireless communication, the method comprising:

  • communicating a first information from the external device to the camera via the hot shoe connector of the camera, the first information mocking information that a flash device would provide to the camera if the flash device were connected to the hot shoe connector of the camera, wherein the external device is not a flash device;

    receiving a TTL data at the external device capable of wireless communication, said receiving a TTL data occurring via the hot shoe connector of the camera;

    receiving a synchronization signal at the external device via the hot shoe connector of the camera;

    wirelessly communicating an exposure compensation value from the external device to a remote lighting device using the radio frequency transmitter; and

    wirelessly communicating using the radio frequency transmitter a remote synchronization from the external device to the remote lighting device for synchronizing the remote lighting device to an image acquisition by the camera using the remote synchronization signal.

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