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Camera with shake preventing apparatus

US5416558A · kind A · utility

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24Claims
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Filing dateDec 21, 1993
Grant dateMay 16, 1995
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Expiry dateDec 21, 2013

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC G)Physics
  • CPC primaryG03B2217/005
  • WIPO fieldOptics
  • WIPO sectorInstruments

Abstract

A camera includes an aperture stop or lens shutter mechanism unit, a base on which the mechanism unit is mounted, a shake correction lens juxtaposed with a photographing lens in an optical axis direction, and a driving unit for moving the shake correction lens in a direction perpendicular to the optical axis direction, and the driving unit is arranged on the base. The shake correction operation is preferably started at a time between the completion of a focusing operation and the start of an exposure operation.

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