Patent ID: 7885523

Claim:
An image pickup apparatus, comprising: an angular velocity sensor that detects a shake of the image pickup apparatus; a blurring amount calculation device that integrates output values of the angular velocity sensor and calculates a blurring amount of an image projected onto a light receiving surface of an image senor, the blurring caused by an imaging lens; a blurring compensation device that compensates for the blurring of the image due to the imaging lens, by displacement; a displacement detection device that detects an amount of the displacement of the blurring compensation device; a control device that generates a drive signal to drive the blurring compensation device based on a difference between the blurring amount calculated by the blurring amount calculation device and the blurring amount detected by the displacement detection device; and an addition device, wherein the addition device multiplies a first coefficient to the output value of the angular velocity sensor and adds the product to an output value of the drive signal, when the output value of the angular velocity sensor is less than a first predetermined value, and the addition device multiplies a second coefficient smaller than the first coefficient to the output value of the angular velocity sensor and adds the product to the output value of the drive signal, when the output value of the angular velocity sensor is greater than or equal to the first predetermined value.