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5627677 Rear conversion lens with vibration-reduction function  
A rear conversion lens which has a negative refracting power and a function for magnifying, when mounted on an image side of an objective lens, an image formed by the objective lens, comprises, in...
5623326 Camera-shake correction apparatus  
A camera-shake correction apparatus includes externally operable operation member for changing the focusing length or the phototaking magnification of a phototaking lens upon being operated,...
5623327 Camera having memory device which stores timer values used in the computation of velocity of an image blur suppression lens  
A camera which compensates for vibrations to reduce image blur by shifting an image blur suppression lens. The image blur suppression lens is movable in directions perpendicular to the optical axis...
5619735 Optical apparatus for correcting image deviation  
With a simple structure, a reliable driving control is obtained for a corrective optical system for correcting an image deviation resulting from unsteady motions caused by a manual holding of an...
5619293 Image blur suppression device of a camera which aligns an image blur suppression lens and actuator based on anticipated sag of supporting members  
An image blur suppression device which moves an image blur suppression lens to compensate for image blur, such as in a camera. A supporting member supports the image blur suppression lens and...
5619030 Control apparatus for image blur prevention employing an angular velocity and an image field sensor  
A control apparatus for image blur prevention includes a ontroller, which uses an output from at least one of first and second image blur detection portions (e.g., a mechanical sensor and an...
5617176 Shake detecting and drift component removal apparatus  
A shake detecting apparatus includes a shake detecting sensor for detecting a shake and for outputting a shake detection signal responsive to the detected shake. A reference voltage output device...
5617159 Image blur suppression device with inertial pendulum system for a camera  
An image blur suppression device suitable for a camera which compensates for low frequency camera motion without increasing the length of the camera in the optical axis direction and without posing...
5617177 Camera having function of correcting shake  
In a camera having a function of correcting a shake, a value of angular velocity or of velocity output from a sensor for detecting the shake is differentiated twice to obtain the differential value...
5615397 Apparatus used for blur suppression or blur prevention  
An undesired signal contained in a signal related to blur suppression, e.g., an error output signal contained in a blur detection signal and obtained upon generation of a shock, is stored. When the...
5606384 Lens barrel having an image blur prevention system arranged with respect to other lens barrel devices to efficiently utilize lens barrel space  
A lens barrel having an image blur prevention system including an image blur prevention optical system to prevent image blur, and an image blur prevention optical system drive mechanism to move the...
5602675 Image blur prevention apparatus  
A movable optical unit for use in image blur prevention and a printed circuit board are connected with a conductive pattern. The conductive pattern is installed so that a driving force for the...
5598242 Vibration compensation mode selection apparataus and associated visual display for a camera  
A vibration compensation mode selection apparatus and associated visual display for a camera which allows a photographer to enable or disable a vibration compensation unit while receiving visual...
5598246 Camera capable of reducing image blur  
A camera capable of reducing image blur according to the present invention comprises a vibration detection device that detects the quantity of camera vibration, an image blur reducing device that,...
5592251 Method and apparatus for preventing image deflection in an optical system  
A camera having an image deflection prevention function and which shortens the time from depression of a release button to the commencement of an exposure action while sufficiently maintaining an...
5592335 Reduced diameter camera lens barrel with lens shift device and improved focus lens drive linkage  
A camera lens barrel for a camera includes first, second, third and fourth lens groups with a diaphragm located between the second and third lens groups. The second and third lens groups are...
5589912 Camera with image stabilizing device  
A camera with an image stabilizing device includes a power supply for the camera, image stabilizing means for preventing image blur of the camera, discrimination means for discriminating a status...
5589904 Camera which performs motion compensation for sequential photographs by continuously detecting motion until the final photograph is taken  
A camera which performs high precision motion compensation while multiple, serial photographs are taken, by stabilizing the output signal of a motion sensor until the final photograph is taken. An...
5587764 Camera-shake correcting camera  
A camera-shake correcting camera, which corrects a camera shake by moving a camera-shake correcting device forming a part of phototaking optical system, comprises a first control device for...
5585875 Camera having anti-vibration function  
A vibration correction system in a camera which detects vibration of the camera caused, e.g., by a hand tremor, and corrects for the vibration of an image in an image plane caused by vibration of...
5585884 Image blur correction apparatus  
An optical instrument having an image stabilizing function comprises an image stabilizing device comprising an image blur correction member to effect vibration suppression, a detecting device for...
5583597 Blur correcting apparatus and method for camera  
A blur correcting apparatus for a camera which includes a shake detecting mechanism and a blur correcting optical element which is movable in a plane normal to the optical axis of the camera. Also...
5581317 Vibration preventing device  
A vibration preventing device comprises a vibration preventing optical system movable for the prevention of vibration, a vibration preventing mechanism portion, a holding member for fixedly holding...
5565940 Camera with vibration correcting function  
A camera with a vibration correcting function, having a phototaking preparation start device releasing a preparatory operation start signal for instructing the start of a phototaking preparatory...
5561498 Automatic image stabilization device  
An automatic image stabilization device which is arranged to detect image movement information from a sensed image signal produced from an image sensor and to reduce the image movement comprises a...
5548370 Vibration compensation device for a camera  
A vibration compensation device for detecting vibration in an optical system, particularly vibration of a camera caused by hand tremor, during light measurement or during focal point adjustment...
5543879 Driving apparatus  
When an ultrasonic motor and a vibration detecting element are provided, in order to make it possible to accurately effect the detection by the vibration detecting element, the resonance frequency...
5539496 Camera with vibration detection and correction units with overriding shutter release  
A camera having a vibration detection unit to detect the amount of vibration of a camera body and a vibration correction unit to compensate for the amount of vibration detected. The vibration...
5534967 Shake detection and compensation system using high-pass filter arithmetic means  
A camera shake detection apparatus includes a camera shake sensor unit, an HPF arithmetic unit for removing drift and offset components of the camera shake sensor unit, an HPF large signal...
5502536 Electrically powered camera  
In order to prevent noise effects from occurring in a detection signal line or in a control signal line, which are small signal lines of a camera, and which are wired close and/or parallel to drive...
5499068 Camera having hand shake detecting function and trimming mode selecting function  
A shake detecting section for detecting a camera shake, a prevention mode selecting section for selecting a shake prevention mode, and a print area setting portion for setting a print area in a...
5483336 Self correcting stereoscopic auto-rangefinder  
A stereoscopic rangefinder is disclosed for determining the distance of a target object by measuring the angle of parallax of light scattered by the target. The rangefinder includes two arrays of...
5479236 Image stabilizing apparatus  
This specification discloses an image stabilizing apparatus of high accuracy which includes a photo-taking lens having a first lens unit movable along the optic axis thereof to vary the focal...
5477297 Zoom lens system with vibration reducing function  
A zoom lens system with a vibration reducing function comprises, in the following order from the object side, a first lens group with a positive refractive power, a second lens group with a...
5459542 Image-blur preventing apparatus  
An image-blur preventing apparatus includes an image-blur correcting device that is driven in accordance with a subject distance to compensate for the location of an image-blur correcting optical...
5444512 Camera vibration correction apparatus  
A camera vibration correction apparatus for use with a zooming camera. The correction apparatus includes: a group of correcting lenses for correcting blurring of an image; a camera vibration...
5402197 Camera shake alarming apparatus  
A camera shake alarming apparatus comprises a storage portion for storing specification information of a camera; a subject distance detecting portion for detecting a subject distance for...
5398132 Optical apparatus having image stabilizing device  
A correction optical member can be locked and unlocked without wasting electric power or requiring cumbersome operations. A locking control member (16) for operating a locking member (20) in...
5394207 Device for stabilizing images  
A device suppresses blur by light refraction in a photographically formed image, thereby stabilizing the image. The device includes a detector for detecting whether a conversion lens for varying...
5389997 Apparatus for correcting camera shake  
An apparatus for correcting camera shake due to movement of the hands comprises: a correction unit for correcting for the movement of the hands; a drive unit for driving the correction unit; a...
5379088 Automatic focusing camera with improved determination of operation modes  
An automatic focusing camera according to the present invention is an automatic focusing camera having a plurality of operation modes, including an information input device for entering a plurality...
5376993 Optical axis correction lens device  
A system for correcting for positional deviations in a hand-held video camera caused by small movements or shaping of the user's hands includes an afocal optical system constituted by a positive...
5353091 Camera having blurring correction apparatus  
A camera having a blurring correction apparatus according to the present invention includes a photographic lens for forming an image of an object to be photographed, a detecting apparatus for...
5337098 Camera-shake preventing device  
A camera-shake preventing device for preventing an image deflection due to a camera-shake by driving a part of an optical system on detecting the camera-shake, device being capable of restraining a...
5335042 Camera with a motion compensation device  
A camera, having a motion compensation device, permits the user to select one of two modes of operations using a selector switch. Partial depression of a shutter release button initiates exposure...
5309190 Camera having blurring movement correction mechanism  
A camera having a blurring movement correction mechanism comprising: an optical element disposed in an optical path of a photo-taking optical system so as to correct shift of an image formed on a...
5305040 Apparatus for driving blur correcting lens in camera  
A blur correcting lens driving apparatus of a camera in which a blur correcting lens is moved in a direction to eliminate a displacement, due to a camera shake, of an object image on a film plane,...
5282044 Camera shake correction system  
A camera shake correction system which uses a combination, of electronic and mechanical camera shake correction devices so as to be able to realize an excellent camera shake correction. The camera...
5266988 Image shake suppressing device for camera  
An image shake suppressing device for a camera comprises an image shake suppressing optical system, a first guide part for guiding the image shake suppressing optical system to be movable in a...
5245378 Image stabilization device  
An image stabilization device having vibration detecting means for detecting the vibration state of an image, vibration correcting means responsive to the vibration detecting means to correct the...