Anti-shake apparatus

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

a movable unit; and

a controller that performs movement control of said movable unit for anti-shake operation;

said movement control being set to an OFF state when said movable unit comes into contact with an end of its range of movement under a predetermined condition.

2. The anti-shake apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein said predetermined condition is that said movable unit comes into contact with both ends of said range of movement in a first direction which is one of the directions of movement of said movable unit, or in a second direction which is another of the directions of movement of said movable unit.

3. The anti-shake apparatus according to claim 2 , further comprising a position detection unit that is used for said anti-shake operation;

wherein a detection of whether said movable unit has come into contact with said end of said range of movement is based on a position detection for said movable unit by said position detection unit.

4. The anti-shake apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein said predetermined condition is that a hand-shake quantity that is calculated in said anti-shake operation is greater than an upper limited value of a predetermined range or less than a lower limited value of said predetermined range.

5. The anti-shake apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein said controller performs said movement control for said anti-shake operation, from a point when a release switch of said photographing apparatus is set to an ON state to a point when said photographing apparatus is set to a state where the next imaging operation can be performed.

6. An anti-shake apparatus of a photographing apparatus, comprising:

a movable unit;

a position detector that detects a position of said movable unit; and

a controller that performs movement control of said movable unit for anti-shake operation at predetermined time periods,

wherein the position detector detects the position of the movable unit when the movable unit is moved by the controller for the anti-shake operation,

wherein said movement control is set to an OFF state when a number of times that a quantity of a movement of said movable unit is greater than or equal to a reference quantity is greater than or equal to a reference number of times, and

wherein the controller determines whether the quantity of the movement of said movable unit is greater than or equal to the reference movement quantity, based on the position of said movable unit detected by said position detection unit.

7. The anti-shake apparatus according to claim 6 , wherein the movement control is further set to an OFF state when a number of times that a quantity of change in a hand-shake quantity calculated by the anti-shake operation is greater than a reference quantity, is greater than or equal to a reference number of times.

8. The anti-shake apparatus according to claim 6 , wherein said controller performs said movement control for said anti-shake operation, from a point when a release switch of said photographing apparatus is set to an ON state to a point when said photographing apparatus is set to a state in which a next imaging operation can be performed.

9. The anti-shake apparatus according to claim 6 , wherein said position detector comprises a hall element and a hall-element signal-processing unit that outputs a coordinate of the position of the movable unit based on an output signal of the hall element.

10. The anti-shake apparatus according to claim 6 , further comprising a driver circuit that moves the movable unit according to the movement control by the controller,

wherein, when the movement control set to the OFF state, the driver circuit stops moving the movable unit.

11. The anti-shake apparatus according to claim 6 , wherein the OFF state is a state in which movement control is not performed.

12. The anti-shake apparatus according to claim 6 , wherein the reference quantity and the reference number of times define a condition in which the anti-shake operation is ineffective.