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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 23, 2007
Filed:
Jun. 02, 2003
Yoshihiro Hara, Kishiwada, JP;
Sadanobu Ueda, Osaka, JP;
Yoshito Iwasawa, Tokyo, JP;
Kazuaki Matsui, Osaka, JP;
Akira Kosaka, Yao, JP;
Satoshi Yokota, Toyonaka, JP;
Yoshihiro Hara, Kishiwada, JP;
Sadanobu Ueda, Osaka, JP;
Yoshito Iwasawa, Tokyo, JP;
Kazuaki Matsui, Osaka, JP;
Akira Kosaka, Yao, JP;
Satoshi Yokota, Toyonaka, JP;
Minolta Co., Ltd., Osaka, JP;
Abstract
A digital camera having an image shake correction apparatus and a method of preventing the image shake of an image taken by the digital camera. The digital camera includes optical elements arranged along a bent line for focusing an object image upon a light receiving plane in which the elements include at least one mirror which reflects a light from an object toward the light receiving plane, a driver for moving the mirror so as to turn its light axis having been bent by the mirror, a vibration sensor for sensing a vibration of a camera body, and a processor for making the driver move the mirror based on the sensed vibration. The mirror turns so as to cancel the vibration of the object image focussed on the light receiving plane.