Patent ID: 8809757

Claim:
An optical apparatus for a zoom lens apparatus, comprising: a unit for displacing an imaging position in a direction perpendicular to an optical axis; at least two angular velocity sensors configured to detect a vibration of the zoom lens apparatus, the at least two angular velocity sensors having axes for detecting an angular velocity, the axes being parallel to each other; an angle computing unit for calculating an angle based on an output of the at least two angular velocity sensors; and a driving unit for driving the unit for displacing the imaging position in the direction perpendicular to the optical axis according to the angle calculated by the angle computing unit, wherein the angle computing unit comprises a direction determining unit for determining the direction of the outputs of each of the at least two angular velocity sensors, wherein when at least two directions obtained by the direction determining unit include a different direction, the angle computing unit sets the angular velocity output to zero and then calculates the angle, and wherein when all the at least two determined directions are the same, the angle computing unit uses an output of one of the at least two angular velocity sensors, the output having a smallest absolute value of the angular velocity, to calculate the angle.