Camera capable of correcting blurring

Abstract

A camera capable of blurring correction includes an acceleration sensor detecting camera-shake amount, and a blurring correcting device correcting blurring of image on the basis of the sensor output. When a lens of the camera is driven for automatic focusing, the blurring is not corrected using an output of the acceleration sensor. Accordingly, blurring is not wrongly corrected.

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BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTIONField of the InventionThe present invention relates to cameras capable of correcting blurring occurring due to camera movement or camera-shake (hereinafter referred to as blurring), and particularly to cameras capable of blurring correction which can perform automatic focusing control (hereinafter referred to as AF).Description of the Related ArtCameras capable of correcting blurring have been proposed recently. As a camera-shake sensor in a camera capable of blurring correction, one which employs an angular velocity sensor is possible. The blurring correction is performed by detecting camera-shake amount of a camera employing an angular velocity sensor and driving a lens to correct it.Recent cameras have an AF function. In a camera having an AF function, a lens is automatically driven for focusing on an object. Then, acceleration noise is produced in the camera-shake detecting sensor due to vibration of the motor and vibration of the driving mechanism. It...

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Benefits of technology

In the period in which vibration noises are produced because the optical system is driven, the blurring correcting device does not use outputs of the camera-shake detecting sensor. Accordingly, wrong detection of blurring amounts is avoided. As a result, in a camera capable of camera-shake detection, correct blurring correction is possible.

Problems solved by technology

Then, acceleration noise is produced in the camera-shake detecting sensor due to vibration of the motor and vibration of the driving mechanism.

It was then recognized that the blur is not properly corrected because correct angular velocity outputs cannot be obtained accordingly.

As compared to the performance of the blurring correcting means, however, the speed required for correction of a correcting lens for hand-shake correction is sometimes too fast for correction, or sometimes the amount to be corrected is so large that the correction is made insufficiently.

In these cases, even with a camera having correcting means, there is a problem that the hand-shake cannot be sufficiently corrected, so that blurring exists in a picture.

When a flash circuit is boosted by a power source, the voltage of a battery is likely to fluctuate, so that a problem might occur that the data provided by a shake detecting sensor such as an angular velocity sensor is not correct due to the influence.

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