04a9:31f8 Powershot SD4500 IS / IXUS 1000 HS / IXY 50S

Canon, Inc.

Vendor ID
04a9
Product ID
31f8
Combined
04a9:31f8
Decimal
1193:12792

What is this device?

This is the USB identifier for a Powershot SD4500 IS / IXUS 1000 HS / IXY 50S manufactured by Canon, Inc.. The vendor ID 04a9 is registered to Canon, Inc. with the USB Implementers Forum, and 31f8 is the product ID that Canon, Inc. assigned to this particular model. When you run lsusb on Linux, this device appears as 04a9:31f8 Canon, Inc. Powershot SD4500 IS / IXUS 1000 HS / IXY 50S.

How to identify it on your system

Linux

$ lsusb
Bus 001 Device 004: ID 04a9:31f8 Canon, Inc. Powershot SD4500 IS / IXUS 1000 HS / IXY 50S

You can filter directly with lsusb -d 04a9:31f8, or get the full descriptor dump with lsusb -v -d 04a9:31f8. Kernel messages from dmesg show the same pair as idVendor=04a9, idProduct=31f8.

Windows

In Device Manager, open the device, go to Details → Hardware Ids. This device reports:

USB\VID_04A9&PID_31F8
USB\VID_04A9&PID_31F8&REV_0100

From PowerShell: Get-PnpDevice | Where-Object InstanceId -match "VID_04A9&PID_31F8"

macOS

$ system_profiler SPUSBDataType
    Powershot SD4500 IS / IXUS 1000 HS / IXY 50S:
      Product ID: 0x31f8
      Vendor ID: 0x04a9  (Canon, Inc.)

Driver help

Having driver issues with this device? Most USB devices are handled by a generic class driver; if yours shows up as an unknown device, confirm the ID above first, then check the manufacturer's downloads page. Canon, Inc. official support →

Raw usb.ids entry

The exact lines this page is generated from, in the upstream source file:

04a9  Canon, Inc.
	31f8  Powershot SD4500 IS / IXUS 1000 HS / IXY 50S

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