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US 7,460,775 B2Granted
Optical apparatus including efficiently arranged shake correction means
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorTakuji Umezu
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Abstract
An optical apparatus includes a shift unit portion 3 holding a lens that can bend a photographing optical axis when driven in a plane orthogonal to an optical axis A and a variator moving frame that moves in the optical axis direction. A part of driving means for driving the shift unit portion 3 having a hand shake correction function and a part of a lens held by the variator moving frame 7 are arranged to overlap with each other in a plane orthogonal to the optical axis A. Thus, the apparatus can be made compact.
Claims6
An optical apparatus comprising:
- a first movable lens frame that holds a lens that deflects photographing light beams by being driven in a direction orthogonal to an optical axis by a driving unit;
- a second movable lens frame movable in a direction parallel to the optical axis,
- wherein a part of a lens held by the second movable lens frame is arranged to be able to overlap with the driving unit in a direction orthogonal to the optical axis.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.