Patent ID: 7782533
Filing Date: 2010-08-24
Classification: G02B

Abstract:
1. An image stabilizing apparatus comprising: a correction lens that includes at least one lens and is for correcting subject image blur; a holding frame that holds the correction lens; a correction unit frame that directly or indirectly holds the holding frame movably within a vertical plane to an optical axis of the lens; and an opposing yoke, wherein the correction unit frame includes at least a magnet, the holding frame includes at least a flat coil having a coil pattern for moving the holding frame using a magnetic force of the magnet, and a magnetism detection sensor that detects the magnetic force of the magnet to ascertain a relative position of the holding frame and the correction unit frame, the magnetism detection sensor, the flat coil and the magnet are disposed in the stated order along an optical axis direction of the lens, and the opposing yoke is disposed opposite the magnetism detection sensor on an opposite side to a side on which the magnet is disposed when viewed from the magnetism detection sensor, and has an indentation-type recess formed in a surface opposing the magnetism detection sensor at least in a portion opposing the magnetism detection sensor; wherein the opposing yoke is positioned at a first end of the image stabilizing apparatus along the optical axis.