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Apparatus equipment with position detecting device

US5943512A · kind A · utility

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Filing dateNov 25, 1997
Grant dateAug 24, 1999
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Expiry dateNov 25, 2017

Classification

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

Abstract

A position detecting apparatus, which is used in a shake correctable camera for detecting positions of an optical axis of a shake correction lens, corrects an error component of a first position sensor for detecting the position of the optical axis in a first direction which is, for example, the vertical direction is corrected by adding a correction value which is selected from a one dimensional table corresponding to the position of the optical axis in the second direction which is for example, the horizontal direction.

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