Patent ID: 7375908

Claim:
A method of manufacturing an image stabilizer in which a correcting lens including a driver having a coil and a magnet relatively movable and which is held to a moving frame by said driver in which one of said coil and magnet is fixed to said moving frame, the other being fixed to a supporting frame which movably supports said moving frame can be moved in a first direction perpendicular to an optical axis of a lens system and in a second direction perpendicular to said first direction and which is also perpendicular to said optical axis, an optical axis of said correcting lens being controlled so as to coincide with said optical axis of said lens system, comprising the steps of: detecting positional information concerning said first direction of said correcting lens by detecting magnetic force of said magnet with a first Hall element fixed to a coil supporting member to which said coil is supported; detecting positional information concerning said second direction of said correcting lens by detecting magnetic force of said magnet with a second Hall element fixed to said coil supporting member; positioning said first and second Hall elements at positions at which magnetic force received by said first and second Hall elements from said magnet becomes a reference value by moving said first and second Hall elements to said first and second directions in the state in which one of said magnet and said coil is fixed to said moving frame, the other of said magnet and said coil supporting member is fixed to said supporting frame and in which the optical axis of said correcting lens is made coincident with said optical axis of said lens system; and fixing the other of said magnet and said coil supporting member to said supporting frame.