Patent ID: 8059951

Claim:
An image stabilizing device for correcting image blurring attributable to movement of a camera, the device comprising: a correction lens holding member to which a correction lens included in an optical system of the camera is fixed and that includes a rotary shaft substantially parallel to an optical axis of light entering the correction lens; a holding member that holds the correction lens holding member so that the rotary shaft is movable rectilinearly in a rectilinear direction that is an arbitrary direction in a plane orthogonal to the optical axis of light entering the correction lens and so that the correction lens holding member is rotatable in a rotation direction about the rotary shaft in the plane; a driving portion for rectilinear movement that applies a driving force to the correction lens holding member in order to drive the correction lens holding member in the rectilinear direction; and a driving portion for rotation that applies a driving force to the correction lens holding member in order to drive the correction lens holding member in the rotation direction.