Image pickup apparatus having image-shake correcting devices determined according to zoom magnifying power
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorToshimichi Ouchi
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Abstract
An image pickup apparatus is provided with a vibration sensor for detecting vibrations of the apparatus, an optical image-shake correcting device for optically correcting an image shake according to an output of the vibration sensor, an electronic image-shake correcting device for electronically correcting the image shake according to an output of the vibration sensor. The apparatus includes a control circuit arranged to select either the optical image-shake correcting device or the electronic image-shake correcting device according to the focal length of an image-pickup optical system of the apparatus.
Claims60
An image pickup apparatus having an image stabilizing function, comprising:
- vibration detecting means for detecting vibrations imparted to said image pickup apparatus;
- first image-shake correcting means for correcting a shake of a picked-up image;
- second image-shake correcting means for correcting the shake of a picked-up image, said second image-shake correcting means being different from said first image-shake correcting means;
- image magnifying power detecting means for detecting the image magnifying power of an image-pickup optical system of said image pickup apparatus;
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- control means for controlling said first image-shake correcting means and said second image-shake correcting means according to the image magnifying power detected by said image magnifying power detecting means.
An image pickup apparatus comprising:
- detecting means for detecting image shake vibrations imparted to said image pickup apparatus;
- optical image-shake correcting means for correcting a movement of a picked-up image;
- electronic image-shake correcting means for correcting the movement of the picked-up image independently of said optical image-shake correcting means;
- extracting means for extracting a high frequency component included in a video signal;
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- control means for controlling said optical image-shake correcting means and said electronic image-shake correcting means according to the high frequency component extracted by said extracting means.
A video camera comprising:
- a) optical image-shake correcting means;
- b) electronic image-shake correcting means;
- c) motion detecting means for detecting a relative movement taking place between said video camera and an object of shooting;
- d) zoom means for varying an angle of view;
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- e) control means for controlling one of said optical image-shake correcting means and said electronic image-shake correcting means on the basis of a zoom magnifying power of said zoom means.
An image pickup apparatus comprising:
- detecting means for detecting image shake vibration imparted to said image pickup apparatus;
- optical image-shake correcting means for correcting a movement of a picked-up image;
- electronic image-shake correcting means for correcting the movement of the picked-up image independently of said optical image-shake correcting means;
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- control means for controlling said optical image-shake correcting means and said electronic image-shake correcting means according to a predetermined component of an image signal which is different from an output of said detecting means.
An image processing apparatus for use with a zoom device, said apparatus comprising:
- detecting means for detecting a relative movement between said apparatus and an object;
- optical image-shake correcting means for correcting the movement;
- electrical image-shake correcting means for correcting the movement;
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- control means for controlling said optical image-shake correcting means and said electrical image-shake correcting means according to a zoom magnifying power of the zoom device.
A storage medium for storing a computer-readable program for causing a processing apparatus to process an image received through a zoom device, the stored program comprising:
- detecting step for causing a detecting means to detect a relative movement between an apparatus and an object;
- an optical correcting step for correcting the movement using optical image-shake correcting means;
- an electrical correcting step for correcting the movement using electrical image-shake correcting means;
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- a control step for controlling said optical image-shake correcting step and said electrical image-shake correcting step according to a zoom magnifying power of the zoom device.
An image processing apparatus for processing a received image signal, said apparatus comprising:
- detecting means for detecting a relative movement between said apparatus and an object;
- optical image-shake correcting means for correcting the movement;
- electrical image-shake correcting means for correcting the movement;
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- control means for controlling said optical image-shake correcting means and said electrical image-shake correcting means according to a predetermined component of the received image signal which is different from an output of said detecting means.
A storage medium for storing a computer-readable program for causing a processing apparatus to process a received image signal, the stored program comprising:
- a detecting step for causing a detecting means to detect a relative movement between said apparatus and an object;
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- an optical image-shake correcting step for optically-correcting the movement;
- an electrical image-shake correcting step for electrically correcting the movement;
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- a control step for controlling said optical image-shake correcting step and said electrical image-shake correcting step according to a predetermined component of the received image signal which is different from an output of said detecting step.
An image processing apparatus for processing a received image signal, said apparatus comprising:
- optical correction means for correcting a relative movement between the apparatus and an object;
- electronic correction means for correcting said relative movement;
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- control means for controlling the optical correction means and the electronic correction means according to a predetermined component contained in the received image signal.
A storage medium for storing a computer-readable program for causing a processing apparatus to process a received image signal, said program including:
- an optical image-shake correcting step for optically correcting a relative movement between the apparatus and the object;
- an electronic image-shake correction step for electronically correcting said relative movement;
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- a control step for controlling the optical image-shake correction step and the electronic image-shake correction step according to a predetermined component in the received image signal.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.