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Image stabilizer

US5734948A · kind A · utility

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Filing dateOct 10, 1996
Grant dateMar 31, 1998
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Expiry dateOct 10, 2016

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC G)Physics
  • CPC primaryG03G15/5037
  • WIPO fieldOptics
  • WIPO sectorInstruments

Abstract

In order to effectively perform image stabilization by control of retaining initial characteristics of a photosensitive body, if correlation between initial and aged values corresponding to bright and dark part signals of the photosensitive body is such that a variation between the initial and aged values of the dark part signal (dark .DELTA.) is greater than a variation between the initial and aged values of the bright part signal (bright .DELTA.), an image stabilizer, first, controls a charging characteristic of the aged values by changing a charging output to the photosensitive body so that the bright .DELTA. and the dark .DELTA. are equal to each other. Next, the image stabilizer makes the aged characteristics of the photosensitive body virtually identical to the initial characteristics by changing an exposure output so that the aged and initial values of the dark part signal become equal to each other.

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