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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Jul. 31, 2018

Filed:

Mar. 02, 2017
Applicant:

Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd., Osaka, JP;

Inventor:

Mikio Sakurai, Osaka, JP;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 5/232 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 5/23267 (2013.01); H04N 5/2327 (2013.01); H04N 5/23258 (2013.01); H04N 5/23287 (2013.01);
Abstract

An imaging device includes an optical system including a plurality of lenses, an imaging element that images a subject image formed by the optical system, a shake detector that detects a shake of the imaging device, a lens driving controller that moves one of the plurality of lenses on a plane perpendicular to an optical axis based on an output signal from the shake detector to correct the shake, an imaging element driver that moves the imaging element on the plane perpendicular to the optical axis, an imaging controller that causes the imaging element to perform an imaging operation to obtain image data, and an image processor that performs a plural number of the imaging operations while moving the imaging element by a predetermined amount and synthesizes a plurality of obtained images to generate a synthesis image.


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