Patent ID: 7881596

Claim:
An image fluctuation correction device that corrects a fluctuation of an image caused by an on-camera shake of an imaging equipment having an optical lens, the image fluctuation correction device comprising: shake detecting means for detecting a horizontal or vertical shake generated in the imaging equipment thereby to output a shake signal based on the detected shake; a first movable refraction element arranged on an incident light path toward the optical lens to change a refracting direction of light being incident on the optical lens to a horizontal direction and a second movable refraction element arranged on the incident light path toward the optical lens to change the refracting direction of light being incident on the optical lens to a vertical direction; a fixed refraction element arranged on the incident light path toward the optical lens; first rotating means for rotating the first movable refraction element within a predetermined movable range defining a clockwise direction and a counterclockwise direction toward the incident direction of light on the optical lens, as a positive direction and a negative direction, respectively; second rotating means for rotating the second movable refraction element within a predetermined movable range defining a counterclockwise direction and a clockwise direction toward the incident direction of light on the optical lens, as a positive direction and a negative direction, respectively; rotating control amount calculating means for calculating rotating control amounts of the first and second rotating means so as to cancel the horizontal or vertical shake detected by the shake detecting means; and rotating control means for controlling the first and second rotating means based on the rotating control amounts calculated by the rotating control amount calculating means, wherein the movable ranges are defined by rotating amounts each from a positive-directional maximum rotating amount, which represents a maximum rotating amount in the positive direction when a first-quadrant image shift angle vector defined by the rotating amounts of the first and second movable refraction elements rotated to the positive direction coincides with a third-quadrant image shift angle vector defined by the rotating amounts of the first and second movable refraction elements rotated to the negative direction, up to a maximum negative-directional rotating amount, which represents a maximum rotating amount in the negative direction when a length of the first-quadrant image shift angle vector coincides with a length of the third-quadrant image shift angle vector.