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Title:
CAMERA-SHAKE CORRECTING DEVICE
Document Type and Number:
Japanese Patent JP3414522
Kind Code:
B2
Abstract:

PURPOSE: To enable setting to an initial position with a minimum centering operation, to reduce power consumption and to secure quick photographing performance by providing a changing means for setting drive to the initial position for correcting camera shaking by a driving means for correcting the camera shaking.
CONSTITUTION: An operating state judging part 1 judging the operating state of a photographing device (camera) capable of correcting its shake judges the operating state of the camera, to judge the operating state of a camera-shake correcting device and the camera itself unrelated to the camera-shake correction. The result of the judgment by the operating state judging part 1 is transmitted to an initial position setting operation method changing part 2, to execute the initial position setting operation of the camera-shake correcting device based on the result of the judgment. In other words, an initial position setting operation method is selected by the judgment based on the camera-shake correcting device and the operating state of the camera. Then, a camera-shake correcting device driving part 3 executes the initial position setting operation (centering operation) of the camera-shake correcting device in accordance with the instruction of the initial position setting operation method changing part 2.


Inventors:
Tatsuya Sato
Yoshinori Matsuzawa
Yasuo Tanbara
Akira Inoue
Application Number:
JP23572294A
Publication Date:
June 09, 2003
Filing Date:
September 29, 1994
Export Citation:
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Assignee:
Olympus Optical Co., Ltd.
International Classes:
G03B17/00; G03B5/00; (IPC1-7): G03B5/00; G03B17/00
Domestic Patent References:
JP63725A
JP282165A
JP6130475A
Attorney, Agent or Firm:
Takehiko Suzue