Patent ID: 7796158

Claim:
A disk type image pickup apparatus wherein a disk type recording medium is used as a recording medium on which a picked up image is to be recorded, comprising: a gyro sensor configured to detect impact or vibration to an apparatus body of said disk type image pickup apparatus to be used for camera shake correction and detect a gyro moment arising from a movement of said apparatus body in a horizontal direction; a detection signal decision section configured to compare, during recording action of said disk type image pickup apparatus, a level of a detection signal outputted from said gyro sensor with a threshold value set in advance in a frequency band lower than a frequency band of the impact or vibration detected for the camera shake correction and output, when the level of the detection signal is higher than the threshold value, a signal representing that the level of the detection signal is higher than the threshold value; a recording control section configured to receive the gyro detection signal from said detection signal decision section to temporarily stop the recording of data on the disk type recording medium for a predetermined period of time; an acceleration sensor configured to detect impact or vibration to said apparatus body; a logical AND circuit configured to logically AND a servo error variation signal representative of an error of a servo mechanism and an acceleration detection signal representing that the detection signal having a level higher than a preset value is detected by said acceleration sensor and output a result of the logical ANDing; and a logical OR circuit configured to logically OR an output signal from said logical AND circuit and the gyro detection signal outputted from said detection signal decision section and output a result of the logical ORing to said recording control section, said recording control section causing the recording of data on the disk type recording medium to be temporarily stopped for a predetermined period of time based on an output of said logical OR circuit.