IP Library Granted Patent US 8,045,008
Granted Patent B2
US 8,045,008 · App. 11/775,891 · Granted Oct 25, 2011

Anti-shake apparatus

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Patent No.
US 8,045,008
App. No.
11/775,891
Granted
Oct 25, 2011
Kind
B2
Abstract

An anti-shake apparatus for image stabilizing of a photographing apparatus comprises a movable unit and a controller. The controller controls the movement of the movable unit for anti-shake operation. The controller controls the movement of the movable unit such as to hold the movable unit at a position without performing the anti-shake operation, for a specified time period that is a part of the time period from the point when the exposure time of the photographing apparatus is finished to the point when the photographing apparatus is set to a state where the next imaging operation can be performed. The position is the initial position where the movable unit is located when the specified time period commences.

Claims (19)

1. An anti-shake apparatus for image stabilizing of a photographing apparatus, comprising:

a movable unit;

an image imaging processor that performs an image processing operation; and

a controller that controls a movement of said movable unit for an anti-shake operation,

wherein, during a time period in which said controller is communicating with said imaging processor, said time period commencing after an exposure operation in which charges are accumulated in an image device and ending before the charges are read from the image device, said controller holds the movable unit at a position at which the movable unit is located when the time period commences, and

after the time period has ended, the controller moves the movable unit in accordance with the anti-shake operation until a release sequence operation has ended.

2. The anti-shake apparatus according to claim 1 , further comprising a release switch,

wherein said anti-shake operation is performed from a point when said release switch is set to an ON state to a point when the release sequence operation had ended, except for said time period.

3. An anti-shake apparatus for image stabilizing, comprising:

a movable unit;

an imaging processor that performs an image processing operation; and

a controller that controls a movement of said movable unit for an anti-shake operation,

wherein, during a time period of an imaging operation in which said controller is communicating with said imaging processor, said time period commencing after an exposure operation of the imaging operation in which charges are accumulated in an imaging device and ending before the charges are read from the imaging device, said controller holds the movable unit at a position at which the movable unit is located when the time period commences, and

after the time period has ended, the controller moves the movable unit in accordance with the anti-shake operation until a release sequence operation of the imaging operation has ended.

4. An anti-shake apparatus for image stabilizing, comprising:

a movable unit;

an imaging processor that performs an image processing operation; and

a controller that controls a movement of said movable unit,

wherein, after an exposure operation of an imaging operation in which charges are accumulated in an imaging device, said controller moves the movable unit in accordance with an anti-shake operation until a release sequence operation of the imaging operation has ended, except during a time period in which said controller is communicating with said imaging processor, during which time period said controller holds the movable unit at a position at which the movable unit is located when the time period commences, said time period commencing after the exposure operation and ending before the charges are read from the imaging device.

Assignments (4)
CORPORATE SPLIT Recorded Nov 4, 2011
From: HOYA CORPORATION
To: PENTAX RICOH IMAGING COMPANY, LTD.
Reel/Frame 027176/0673 →
MERGER Recorded Sep 26, 2011
From: PENTAX CORPORATION
To: HOYA CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 026970/0554 →
MERGER Recorded Sep 8, 2011
From: PENTAX CORPORATION
To: HOYA CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 026871/0831 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jul 11, 2007
From: UENAKA, YUKIO
To: PENTAX CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 019540/0377 →