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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 02, 2008
Filed:
Oct. 25, 2005
Applicant:
Takuji Umezu, Utsunomiya, JP;
Inventor:
Takuji Umezu, Utsunomiya, JP;
Assignee:
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G03B 17/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
An optical apparatus includes a shift unit portionholding a lens that can bend a photographing optical axis when driven in a plane orthogonal to an optical axis A and a variator moving frame that moves in the optical axis direction. A part of driving means for driving the shift unit portionhaving a hand shake correction function and a part of a lens held by the variator moving frameare arranged to overlap with each other in a plane orthogonal to the optical axis A. Thus, the apparatus can be made compact.