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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 25, 2014
Filed:
May. 13, 2009
Hirofumi Nomura, Saitama, JP;
Hirofumi Nomura, Saitama, JP;
Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An image pickup device includes: an image pickup optical system configured to form a subject image; an image pickup element configured to generate a picked-up image from the subject image formed by the image pickup optical system; an image blur detecting section configured to output an image blur signal using a motion detecting sensor; an arithmetic section configured to calculate an amount of image blur correction including an amount of optical correction and an amount of electronic correction on a basis of the image blur signal; an optical image blur correcting section configured to move at least one of an optical element forming a part of the image pickup optical system and the image pickup element in accordance with the amount of optical correction; and an electronic image blur correcting section configured to correct electronically an image blur of the picked-up image by image processing based on the amount of electronic correction.