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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 13, 2008
Filed:
Mar. 24, 2004
Applicants:
Hirofumi Nomura, Saitama, JP;
Jinyo Kumaki, Tokyo, JP;
Hirotaka Hirano, Gifu, JP;
Inventors:
Assignee:
Sony Corporation, , JP;
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 5/228 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
In an image pickup device, a controller includes a surplus area calculation unit to detect a surplus area for use in correcting camera shake based upon a size of an effective area on an image pickup surface and a size of an efficient area extracted in response to camera shake. Thus, this image pickup device can prevent a troublesome aspect in which camera shake correction reaches the correction end from occurring, even when a large camera shake that is beyond the surplus area occurs.