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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8098289 | Micro-optical image stabilizer The optical image stabilizer includes a substrate, a carrier movably disposed above the substrate for carrying an image sensor, an anchor fixed above the substrate, a conducting pad fixed above the anchor for coupling an image processing circuit, a flexible suspensi... | 01/17/2012 |
| 8094200 | Lens apparatus and imaging apparatus In a lens apparatus, light entering a lens barrel from an external source is incident to an optoelectric converting element for image recording. The light passing through an optical path of the lens apparatus is filtered by a filter that absorbs a specific range of ... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8089519 | Photographic apparatus A photographic apparatus comprises a movable platform and a controller. The movable platform has an imager that captures an optical image through a taking lens, and is movable and rotatable on an xy plane. The controller calculates an inclination angle... | 01/03/2012 |
| 8081223 | Imaging apparatus An imaging apparatus includes: an imaging device for subjecting an optical subject image to photoelectric conversion to generate an image signal; an angular velocity sensor for detecting angular velocity with the imaging apparatus; a first shaking amount calculation... | 12/20/2011 |
| 8077212 | Shock and vibration isolator for a camera A shock and vibration isolator for a movie or video camera has a vertical axis system including a base, an arm pivotably attached to the base, and at least one spring connected to the base and to the arm. One or more dampeners are connected to the base and to the ar... | 12/13/2011 |
| 8077211 | Image blurring correction device and imaging device using the same with a high pass filter An imaging device includes an angular velocity sensor (11), which outputs a blurring signal, a high-pass filter circuit unit (12), which eliminates a direct current component in accordance with a first time constant, and which outputs a fluctuation por... | 12/13/2011 |
| 8059159 | Image capturing device and method for adjusting photographing angle thereof A image capturing device includes an image capture unit, a digital signal processor (DSP), a selection unit, an adjustment unit, a microprocessor, a storage unit, and a accelerometer. The image capture unit photographs a subject to output image data representing the... | 11/15/2011 |
| 8059158 | Photographing apparatus A photographing apparatus for reducing the effect of shake on an image. The photographing apparatus includes an image pickup device, an image pickup device stage supporting the image pickup device and moving the image pickup device, a driving force generating portio... | 11/15/2011 |
| 8049784 | Anti-shake device for optical instrument An anti-shake device for positioning an image-capturing unit in an optical instrument. A base includes a shaft pillar. A clamp unit includes a first clamping arm and a second clamping arm. The first and second clamping arms pivot to the shaft pillar of the base and ... | 11/01/2011 |
| 8035693 | Micro-optical image stabilizer A micro-optical image stabilizer is disclosed. The optical image stabilizer includes a substrate, a carrier movably disposed on the substrate for carrying an image sensor, an anchor fixed on the substrate, a conducting pad fixed on the anchor for coupling an image p... | 10/11/2011 |
| 8022999 | Deviation detector, deviation corrector and imaging device The correction amounts of respective correction units 37 of first and second shake correction amount deriving units 38, 39 are alternately employed in every short period composed of a time shorter than a period up to a timing at which it is contemplate... | 09/20/2011 |
| 8013897 | Apparatus for correcting camera shake and image capturing apparatus A digital camera 100 is provided with an optical unit 1, CCD 3, a CCD holder 27 for holding CCD 3, actuator 10 for connecting the CCD holder 27 with the optical unit 1, wherein the actuator changes in shape whe... | 09/06/2011 |
| 7995099 | Blur correction mechanism and image capture apparatus A blur correction mechanism includes: a first guide shaft extending in a first direction, the direction being a predetermined direction orthogonal to the optical axis of the lens groups; a base frame supporting the first guide shaft; a first correcting moving frame ... | 08/09/2011 |
| 7973822 | Drive device and image stabilizer A drive device includes an actuator, a fixed member, a movable member, rotating members, and a guide member. The actuator is arranged on the fixed member, and includes a piezoelectric element and at least two drivers on the piezoelectric element in parallel with the... | 07/05/2011 |
| 7965318 | Image detecting module The invention provides an image detecting module including a base, a carrier movably disposed on the base, an image detecting unit disposed on the carrier, a contact portion fixed to the carrier, and a fixed member fixed to the base. The fixed member has a protrusio... | 06/21/2011 |
| 7961223 | Image sensor for surpressing movement of an image sensor due to change in urging direction of a spring In this image sensor, a first spring member is so arranged that the urging direction of the first spring member is inclined with respect to the axis of a first rotating shaft of a first driving source thereby inclining a transmission member urged by the first spring... | 06/14/2011 |
| 7952613 | Image blur correcting unit, image blur correcting device, image pickup apparatus and portable equipment In the image blur correcting unit, one end of a flexible board is connected to a sensor board included in a holding module, and the portion of the flexible board that extends at least first from the sensor board extends outwardly from the holding module in a directi... | 05/31/2011 |
| 7907175 | Tracking image pickup device having a rough rotation and a fine rotation part A tracking image pickup device which makes it possible to perform high-speed and high-accuracy drive and tilting drive without sacrificing the rigidity of the device. An image pickup section has a predetermined optical system and acquires an image pickup signal thro... | 03/15/2011 |
| 7907176 | Image pickup system, method for controlling shooting direction of image pickup device, and program therefor An image pickup system capable of obtaining images to be observed without giving a sense of discomfort to an observer, while moving as fast as possible. The image pickup system comprises an image pickup device, and a drive section arranged to rotate the image pickup... | 03/15/2011 |
| 7847824 | Shake correction apparatus of a camera A shake correction apparatus of a camera, includes a stationary support board; an electrical board movable relative to the stationary support board; an image pickup device supported by the electrical board and including leads made of a magnetic material which are ar... | 12/07/2010 |
| 7773117 | Image stabilizer An image stabilizer includes an image pickup device; a guide device which guides the image pickup device in a manner to allow the image pickup device to move linearly in a plane orthogonal to an optical axis, the guide device and the image pickup device being arrang... | 08/10/2010 |
| 7742075 | Lens driving device, image stabilizing unit, and image pickup apparatus A lens driving device having a simplified structure in which a holding member is moved relative to a stationary member with appropriate viscous damping is provided. The lens driving device includes the holding member configured to hold a compensation lens for image ... | 06/22/2010 |
| 7701486 | Image capturing device An image capturing device, including an rectangular image capturing element having long sides and short sides; an image capturing optical system forming an image of a subject on the rectangular image capturing element; a first driving device which moves the rectangu... | 04/20/2010 |
| 7692689 | Imaging-element unit and imaging device A compact and power saving imaging-element unit of handshake compensation type is provided. The imaging-element unit comprises an imaging-element board with an imaging element that performs photoelectric conversion of incident light formed or located thereon; a rela... | 04/06/2010 |
| 7688354 | Image stabilizer An image stabilizer for counteracting image shake of an object image formed on an image pickup device includes an image-pickup-device holding member; a guide device which guides the image-pickup-device holding member so as to be allowed to move linearly in a plane o... | 03/30/2010 |
| 7675548 | Shake correcting device, shake correcting method and control program for implementing the method A shake correcting device is capable of preventing a correcting optical device from hitting against a component part in the vicinity thereof to generate noise upon outputs from an H bridge driver for driving the correcting optical device being enabled. The device in... | 03/09/2010 |
| 7548257 | Optical apparatus for correcting vibration using ball-guides and method of resetting thereof An optical apparatus is disclosed which can prevent displacement of subject images due to the initializing operation of the image stabilizing unit from being seen by a photographer through a finder. The apparatus comprises an image-stabilizing unit which includes a ... | 06/16/2009 |
| 7489340 | Optical image stabilizer for camera lens assembly Disclosed is an optical image stabilizer for use with a camera lens assembly. The optical image stabilizer including a fixable substrate; a movable substrate movably disposed on the fixable substrate, a fixable comb structure fixed on the fixable substrate and dispo... | 02/10/2009 |
| 7483056 | Image capturing apparatus with blur compensation An image capturing apparatus in which an image of a subject formed by lenses and a low pass filter of a photographic optical system is provided to an imaging device unit that supplies a corresponding signal to an A/D converter that in turn provides an output to an i... | 01/27/2009 |
| 7477291 | Anti-shake apparatus An anti-shake apparatus of a photographing-apparatus comprises a movable-unit and a fixed-unit. The movable-unit has an imaging device and a position-detecting coil, and is movable on a plane which is perpendicular to an optical axis of a camera lens of the photogra... | 01/13/2009 |
| 7453494 | Anti-shake apparatus having magnetic position detectors positioned on one axis with common input circuitry An anti-shake apparatus of a photographing apparatus comprises a movable unit, a fixed unit, and a signal-processing unit. The movable unit has an imaging device and is movable in first and second directions. The fixed unit slidably supports the movable unit in both... | 11/18/2008 |
| 7440007 | Image-taking apparatus and optical adjustment method for an image-taking apparatus with displacement of the optical axis An image-taking apparatus is disclosed which is capable of adjusting a positional displacement of an image-taking optical system and an image-pickup element even in a state in which they are fixed. The image-taking apparatus includes the image-taking optical system ... | 10/21/2008 |
| 7426340 | Stage apparatus and camera shake correction apparatus using the stage apparatus A stage apparatus in which a movable stage is guided in first and second directions orthogonal to each other on a stationary member, includes a pair of first elongated holes formed on one of the movable stage and the stationary member and are elongated in the first ... | 09/16/2008 |
| 7412162 | Imaging device having an angle adjusting device for an image sensor An imaging device includes an image sensor provided at an imaging position of a photographing optical system, at least one optical element provided in front of the image sensor, a hermetically-sealing holding member which hermetically seals and integrally holds the ... | 08/12/2008 |
| 7409150 | Lens driving mechanism, lens unit and image pickup device Disclosed herein is a lens driving mechanism which can achieve simplification of the mechanism and provision of appropriate control relating to a correction against a shake. The lens driving mechanism includes a piezoelectric element that is deformed when energized ... | 08/05/2008 |
| 7355630 | Anti-shake apparatus with position detecting magnet An anti-shake apparatus of a photographing-apparatus comprises a movable-unit and a fixed-unit. The movable-unit has an imaging-device and a position-detecting magnet. The movable-unit can be moved in a first-direction and a second-direction. The fixed-unit has a ha... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7352389 | Anti-shake apparatus for correcting hand shake effect through first and second drive coil units An anti-shake-apparatus of a photographing-apparatus comprises a movable-unit and a fixed-unit. The movable-unit has an imaging-device, a first coil-unit having a first driving-coil and a first position-detecting-coil, and a second coil-unit having a second driving-... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7353069 | Electronic apparatus capable of adjusting display direction and display-direction adjusting method thereof An electronic apparatus capable of adjusting display direction and display-direction adjusting method thereof are disclosed. The electronic apparatus includes a sensing unit, a processing unit, and a display unit. The sensing unit is for outputting a sensing signal ... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7349625 | Intermediate adapter There is provided an intermediate adapter having a camera shake correction function, in which an exchange head provided with an image taking optical system and an imaging device is applicable to a camera system, and a camera system having the intermediate adapter. T... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7337650 | System and method for aligning sensors on a vehicle A vehicle sensor system consisting of video, radar, ultrasonic or laser sensors, oriented to obtain a 360 degree view around the vehicle for the purpose of developing a situation or scene awareness. The sensors may or may not have overlapping field of views, or supp... | 03/04/2008 |
