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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 13, 2010
Filed:
Oct. 05, 2006
Yoshio Serikawa, Kasukabe, JP;
Shigeru Irisawa, Chigasaki, JP;
Yoshio Serikawa, Kasukabe, JP;
Shigeru Irisawa, Chigasaki, JP;
Ricoh Company, Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An imaging apparatus, including an image pick up device capable of moving in a transverse direction to a photographing optical axis, a drive circuit configured to prevent an image on the image pick up device from blurring or reduce the image blur by moving the image pick up device based on an amount of the image blur, a position detection device configured to detect a position of the image pick up device, a storing device configured to store reference positional information showing that the image pick up device is in the reference position based on an output of the position detection device, the position of the image pick up device being detected based on the reference positional information stored in the storing device when the image pick up device is driven by the drive circuit.