Minolta Company, Ltd.

Tomonori Satoh

Yoshihiro Hara

Keiji Tamai

Toshihiro Hamamura

Kazuhiko Yukawa

Masatoshi Yoneyama

Junji Sato

A camera is provided with: a detector for detecting a shake amount of the apparatus with respect to an object at an interval; a calculator for calculating a shake speed and a shake acceleration rate based on detected shake amounts, and calculates an estimative shake amount based on a calculated shake speed, a calculated shake acceleration rate, and a coefficient k (0&#x3c;k&#x3c;1) on an assumption that a shake is uniformly accelerated motion, the coefficient k being a multiplier for the calculated shake acceleration rate; and a corrector for executing a shake correction in accordance with a calculated estimative shake amount.

Apparatus capable of shake estimation

A camera is provided with: a detector for detecting a shake amount of the apparatus with respect to an object at an interval; a calculator for calculating a shake speed and a shake acceleration rate based on detected shake amounts, and calculates an estimative shake amount based on a calculated shake speed, a calculated shake acceleration rate, and a coefficient k (0<k<1) on an assumption that a shake is uniformly accelerated motion, the coefficient k being a multiplier for the calculated shake acceleration rate; and a corrector for executing a shake correction in accordance with a calculated estimative shake amount.

Apparatus capable of determining shake of the apparatus relative to an object

A shake correcting device of a camera is provided with: a detector for detecting a shake of the camera relative to an object cyclically; a calculator for calculating a degree of variation of a plurality of detection results of the detector, and calculating a detection precision based on a calculated degree of variation; and a corrector for executing a shake correction of the camera based on a detection precision calculated by the calculator.

Shake detecting/correcting device for use in an optical apparatus and a

An optical apparatus is provided with a detector for detecting a shake of the apparatus relative to an object at a predetermined interval, a corrector for correcting a shake of the apparatus based on a detection result of the detector, a driver for driving the corrector, a calculator for calculating an estimative shake at a predetermined point of time in a next interval based on a detection result of the detector, and a controller for controlling the driver based on a calculation result of the calculator to drive the corrector to effect correction for the shake at the predetermined point of time in the next interval.

Apparatus capable of correcting object image displacement

A mode setter 92 causes a shake sensor controller 43 and a shake amount detector 51 to execute a routine of low-speed control when the switch S1 is ON, and a routine of high-speed control when the switch S2 is ON. A display signal generator 121 generates a display signal based on the shake amounts obtained through a prescribed number of detections by the shake amount detector 51. A display 122 has multiple types of LEDs that illuminate in response to a display signal generated by the display signal generator 121 when the switch S1 is ON.

Apparatus having shake correction function

A camera capable of shake correction, and is provided with: a sensor for sensing a light image of an object to detect a camera shake; an exposure time setter for setting a first exposure time based on a brightness of an object and a second exposure time smaller than the first exposure time; and a controller for judging as to whether the shake correction is disable, and controlling exposure with reference to the second exposure time when the shake correction is judged to be disable.

Camera capable of shake correction

A camera having a substitute shake amount calculator 51e that, where flash light is emitted while integration is being performed by a shake sensor, seeks a substitute shake amount using past shake amounts stored in a memory 56 instead of the shake amount sought from the image data obtained during this integration period.

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Tomonori Satoh