Patent ID: 8289406

Claim:
An image stabilization device comprising: a plurality of micromechanical actuators; a housing having at least two walls disposed substantially perpendicular to one another, at least two of the walls having at least one of the plurality of micromechanical actuators attached thereto and extending perpendicular therefrom; an image recording sensor operative to generate image data of an image, the image recording sensor being at least partially surrounded by the housing, the image recording sensor being suspendedly mounted to the micromechanical actuators, the image recording sensor being movably and suspendedly attached to the housing by the actuators; and a computational device operative to receive and process the image data generated by the image recording sensor, the computational device including a detection device operative to perform a shake detection image analysis on the image data to detect changes between two images in a time sequence of the image data and determine differential angles from the time sequence of the image data by tracking a position of a reference point between the two images in a time sequence of the image data so as to describe a present movement of the image recording sensor, the computational device being operative to immediately use the detected changes and determined differential angles between the two images describing the present movement of the image recording sensor to generate control signals for controlling the micromechanical actuators so as to mechanically move the image recording sensor in a manner to actively counteract the present shake and to stabilize the image.