Patent ID: 7400823
Filing Date: 2008-07-15
Classification: G02B,G03B,H04N

Abstract:
1. A camera provided with camera-shake compensation functionality, comprising: a camera-shake detector that detects quantity of shake of said camera; a photographing mode selector that is used to select a photographing mode; an adjuster that adjusts output signals from said camera-shake detector, in accordance with said photographing mode selected by said photographing mode selector; and an anti-shake mechanism that compensates for a camera-shake to be counteracted, based on the output signals adjusted by said adjuster, wherein said adjuster extracts predetermined frequency components from the output signals in accordance with said photographing mode, and wherein said photographing mode is classified by a set of information including at least one of a size of an object, a distance to said object, a magnification, a quantity of movement in an image plane, a panning operation, and use of a tripod.