Patent ID: 9036034
Filing Date: 2015-05-19
Classification: G02B,G03B,H04N

Abstract:
1. An image pickup apparatus comprising: an image pickup element configured to generate an electric signal by photoelectrically converting incident light that enters the image pickup apparatus from a subject; a signal processor configured to generate a photographed image based on the electric signal; a shake detector configured to detect a shake angle of the image pickup apparatus; an optical zoom unit configured to optically change a magnification of the photographed image; an optical shake corrector configured to optically correct a shake of the photographed image; an electronic shake corrector configured to correct the shake of the photographed image by cutting out a predetermined region of the photographed image; a setting unit configured to set a ratio in which the shake angle is distributed to the optical shake corrector and the electronic shake corrector, respectively, so that the higher an optical zoom magnification in the optical zoom unit, the higher a ratio is in which the shake angle is distributed to the optical shake corrector; and a controller configured to distribute the shake angle based on the set ratio and to control the optical shake corrector and the electronic shake corrector to correct the shake of the photographed image based on the distributed shake angles, wherein when the optical zoom magnification is at its minimum, the setting unit sets a ratio in which the shake angle is distributed so that a ratio between a shake angle to be distributed to the optical shake corrector and a shake angle to be distributed to the electronic shake corrector and a ratio between the size of correctable range of the optical shake corrector and the size of correctable range of the electronic shake corrector are equal.