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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.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 19, 2000
Filed:
Dec. 28, 1998
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
Minolta Co., Ltd., Osaka, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G03B / ; G02B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
396 55 ; 359554 ;
Abstract
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.