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US 7,460,772 B2Granted
Optical apparatus
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsMasanori Ishikawa, Jun Sugita, Mitsuru Shinohara, Yuki Nagao
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Abstract
An optical apparatus is provided which uses image shake information generated by a shake correction unit to improve an image by reducing the amount of image shake.
Claims19
An optical apparatus comprising:
- a shake correction unit;
- and
- a controller configured to generate, using a first signal and a second signal, shake information, the first signal being obtained by detecting an acceleration of a vibration and the second signal being obtained by detecting a displacement of the vibration,
- wherein the shake correction unit uses the shake information to improve image shake,
- wherein the first signal is generated using an inertial force generated by the vibration and the second signal is generated by detecting a displacement of a light beam caused by the vibration, and
- wherein the controller determines a shake velocity and a shake displacement on the basis of a shake acceleration represented by the first signal and an initial shake velocity set on the basis of the second signal.
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An optical vibration correction method in an optical system including at least a first lens unit, the method comprising:
- measuring the photometric environment of the optical system used to view an object;
- measuring the focus qualities of an image of the object in the optical system;
- measuring an angular shake amount;
- calculating the angular shake correction value;
- decreasing the angular shake by moving the first lens unit by an amount related to the angular shake correction value;
- measuring parallel and focal shake displacements in the X, Y, and Z directions, where X,Y,Z are orthogonal axes;
- correcting the measured parallel and focal shake displacements for gravitational acceleration;
- and
- moving a second lens unit based on the corrected parallel and focal shake displacements to improve the parallel and focal shake of the image, wherein the second lens unit is included in the optical apparatus.
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An optical apparatus comprising:
- a shake correction unit;
- and
- a controller configured to generate, using a first signal and a second signal, shake information, the first signal being obtained by detecting an acceleration of a vibration and the second signal being obtained by detecting a displacement of the vibration,
- wherein the shake correction unit uses the shake information to improve image shake,
- wherein the first signal is generated using an inertial force generated by the vibration and the second signal is generated by detecting a displacement of a light beam caused by the vibration,
- wherein the controller improves a first shake acceleration using the second signal resulting in a first improved first shake acceleration, the first shake acceleration being represented by the first signal,
- wherein the controller generates the shake information on the basis of the first improved first shake acceleration,
- wherein the controller improves the first improved first shake acceleration using a correction value for minimizing a gravitational acceleration component from the first improved first shake acceleration resulting in a second improved first shake acceleration, the correction value being determined on the basis of a difference between the first improved first shake acceleration and a second shake acceleration which is calculated on the basis of the second signal, and
- wherein the correction value used for correcting the first improved first shake acceleration during shooting is determined before shooting.
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An optical apparatus comprising:
- a shake correction unit;
- and
- a controller configured to generate, using a first signal and a second signal, shake information, the first signal being obtained by detecting an acceleration of a vibration and the second signal being obtained by detecting a displacement of the vibration,
- wherein the shake correction unit uses the shake information to improve image shake,
- wherein the first signal is generated using an inertial force generated by the vibration and the second signal is generated by detecting a displacement of a light beam caused by the vibration, and
- wherein the controller detects a shooting magnification and generates the shake information using the first signal and the second signal when the shooting magnification is higher than a predetermined value.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.