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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 15, 2012
Filed:
Mar. 13, 2008
Shigeru Irisawa, Chigasaki, JP;
Yohsuke Suzuki, Yokohama, JP;
Shigeru Irisawa, Chigasaki, JP;
Yohsuke Suzuki, Yokohama, JP;
Ricoh Company, Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
The present invention aims to provide an imaging apparatus with blur correction function in which a retention lever to mechanically retain an image sensor requires a minimum moving space and the thickness of a lens barrel can be reduced in optical axis direction. The imaging apparatus includes an image sensor () photoelectrically converting an image of a subject into an electric signal; an optical photographic system () forming the subject image on an imaging plane of the image sensor (); a lens barrel () containing the optical photographic system () and being extendable/retractable in an optical axis direction of the optical photographic system (); a frame member () movably supporting the image sensor () in a plane perpendicular to the optical axis; a blur correction unit () correcting a blur in the image due to hand shake by moving the frame member () in a plane perpendicular to the optical axis; and a retainer unit () retaining the frame member () in one of the optical axis direction and a direction perpendicular to the optical axis.