Patent ID: 7706672
Filing Date: 2010-04-27
Classification: G03B,H04N

Abstract:
1. An imaging apparatus comprising: an image sensor; a display section displaying an image from the image sensor; a shake detection section detecting a shake of the imaging apparatus; a blur correction section correcting a blur in an image due to the shake of the imaging apparatus; a driver section driving the blur correction section; a mechanical retention section mechanically retaining the blur correction section; an image blur correction function in which the blur correction section is mechanically retained at a predetermined position during non-performance of an image blur correction and the blur correction section is electronically retained in a drivable state at a predetermined position during the image blur correction; and a controller changing a display control over the display section when the blur correction section is transited from an electronically retained state to a mechanically retained state and/or from a mechanically retained state to an electronically retained state.