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Device for correcting a tremble of a focused image

Patent 6374048 Issued on April 16, 2002. Estimated Expiration Date: Icon_subject April 7, 2020. Estimated Expiration Date is calculated based on simple USPTO term provisions. It does not account for terminal disclaimers, term adjustments, failure to pay maintenance fees, or other factors which might affect the term of a patent.

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Inventors

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Application

No. 545466 filed on 04/07/2000

US Classes:

396/52, CAMERA SHAKE SENSING348/208.99, Camera image stabilization396/55Having stabilization system

Examiners

Primary: Adams, Russell E.
Assistant: Smith, Arthur A

Attorney, Agent or Firm

Foreign Patent References

  • 5-113595 JP. 05/13/1993
  • 7-199263 JP. 08/13/1995

International Class

G03B 017/00

Foreign Application Priority Data

1999-04-09 JP

Abstract

A movement of an optical axis of a photographing optical system due to a focused image tremble is detected as a displacement on a focal plane. An object image is formed on the focal plane by the photographing optical system, and when an optical axis of a correction lens is coaxial with an optical axis of other optical systems included in the photographing optical system, the optical axis of the photographing optical system pierces through a center of the focal plane. On the focal plane, a correctable range of the correction lens is defined based on a structure of a correction device. An original point of the correctable range is the center of the focal plane. If a focused image tremble occurs out of the correctable range, an intersection of a boundary of the correctable range and a straight line connecting a position of the optical axis of the photographing optical system and the original point is calculated. The optical axis of the photographing optical system is supposed to be moved to the intersection, then the correction of the focused image tremble is carried out.

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