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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 22, 2002
Filed:
Apr. 02, 2001
Applicant:
Inventor:
Shinji Imada, Utsunomiya, JP;
Assignee:
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G03B 5/00 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G03B 5/00 ;
Abstract
A vibration preventing apparatus and an image pickup apparatus such as a camera which have a vibration correction lens driven on the basis of the output of vibration detecting means for detecting the vibration of the camera and for correcting the vibration, and a plurality of resilient members for positioning the vibration correction lens at the correction center, and changes the correction center in conformity with the exposure time and/or the focal length of the camera to thereby mitigate the resonance with the frequency of the vibration.