Patent ID: 8842980

Claim:
An imaging device comprising: an imaging device including an imaging element and an optical system that forms a subject image on an imaging area of the imaging element; a blur detection unit for outputting a blur signal indicating a change in a position or posture by movement of the imaging device; a correction operation unit for changing a relative position between the imaging area and the subject image in a direction orthogonal to an optical axis of the optical system by operating within a predetermined range of movement; a blur correction position calculation unit for calculating a position of the correction operation unit to cancel an image blur of the subject image based on the blur signal output from the blur detection unit, as a blur correction position; a driving unit for driving the correction operation unit based on the blur correction position calculated by the blur correction position calculation unit; a centripetal force addition unit for adding a centripetal force that returns the correction operation unit to a center of the range of movement; and a swing correction mode execution unit for executing image blur correction control of a swing correction mode that suppresses an image blur due to the change in the position or posture by the movement of the imaging device by driving the correction operation unit by the driving unit in a state where the centripetal force addition unit adds a centripetal force of a predetermined level to the correction operation unit in an exposure period in which the imaging element is exposed, and returns the correction operation unit to the center of the range of movement by adding a centripetal force greater than the centripetal force in the exposure period to the correction operation unit by the centripetal force addition unit in a non-exposure period in which the imaging element is not exposed.