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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:
Jan. 02, 2001
Filed:
May. 08, 1997
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 5/228 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 5/228 ;
Abstract
An image pickup apparatus including image pickup device for photoelectrically converting an object image and generating an image pickup signal, a memory for storing the image pickup signal generated from the image pickup device, a detecting sensor for detecting a variation of the apparatus and a control circuit for storing a still image signal generated from the image pickup device to be stored in the memory in the case that the vibration detected by the detecting sensor is equal to or less than a predetermined value and for inhibiting storing of the still image signal to the memory in the case that the vibration is larger than the predetermined value.