Patent ID: 8026949

Claim:
An image stabilization control circuit for correcting an optical axis of an image pickup apparatus in response to a vibration thereof, the circuit comprising: a first equalizer which generates a vibration-component signal indicating a amount of movement of the image pickup apparatus according to an output signal of a vibration detecting element for detecting the vibration of the image pickup apparatus; a second equalizer which generates a drive signal used to control a driver element to correct the position of a lens or image pickup devices, based on an output signal of a position detecting element for detecting the position of the lens to be driven or the image pickup devices to be driven and the vibration-component signal; a verifying-signal input circuit which inputs a signal used for verification, to said first equalizer; and a control unit which verifies operations of the driver element, the position detecting element and said first equalizer, based on the vibration-component signal generated from the signal used for verification and the output signal of the position detecting element.