Image stabilizing apparatus
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsKazuhiro Noguchi, Shigeru Ogino, Takashi Kobayashi
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Abstract
An image stabilizing apparatus which compensates image blurring by means of a compensatory optical system displaceably supported relative to a barrel comprises an electrical locking device for electrically locking the compensatory optical system relative to the barrel, a mechanical locking device for mechanically locking the compensatory optical system relative to the barrel, and a control device for activating the electrical locking device prior to the activation or releasing of the mechanical locking device.
Claims16
An image stabilizing apparatus which compensates image blurring by means of a compensatory optical system displaceably supported relative to a barrel, comprising:
- (A) electrical locking means for electrically locking the compensatory optical means relative to the barrel;
- (B) mechanical locking means for mechanically locking the compensatory optical means relative to the barrel;
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- (C) control means for activating the electrical locking means prior to the activation or releasing of the mechanical locking means.
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