Ueda, who worked for camera company Minolta when he invented the extender, held the patent until it ran out in 2003 according to the BBC.
据BBC报道,发明这台扩展器时,上田宏在日本美能达(Minolta)公司工作,这项专利一直为他持有,直到2003年专利失效。
"My idea came too early, but that's just one of those things." Ueda told the BBC. "I patented about 300 ideas, so that was just one of them. We call it a 3am invention - it arrived too early."
接受BBC采访时,上田宏说:“我的这项发明出现得太早了。不过我还有大约300项发明专利,它只是其中之一。我们称它为“凌晨3点的发明,它到来得太早了。
In 2005 another inventor, Wayne Fromm, brought the selfie stick back with his patent for an "apparatus for supporting a camera and method for using the apparatus." He called his product Quik Pod.
而2005年另一位发明者韦恩·弗洛姆为“相机支撑器和支撑器的使用方法申请了专利,再一次将自拍杠展示在世人面前。他称自己的发明为“快捷豆荚(Quick Pod)。
Fromm feels similarly to Ueda, in that he believes his product came at the wrong time, before smartphones were everywhere. “The selfie stick today would not exist if it was not for me, Fromm told ReadWrite. Fromm is currently suing many different selfie stick creators for copyright infringement.
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