Patent ID: 8593529

Claim:
A vibration correction control circuit for correcting displacement of an optical axis due to vibration applied to an image pickup apparatus, the circuit comprising: an integrating circuit configured to integrate an angular velocity signal output from a vibration detection element for detecting the vibration and generate a shift amount signal indicating a shift amount of the image pickup apparatus; and a control unit configured to determine the termination of a panning mode or tilting mode in the image pickup apparatus, the control unit sampling the amplitude value of the angular velocity signal a plurality of times within a predetermined unit period during the panning or tilting mode and determining the termination of the panning or tilting mode when the average value of the sampling values lies closer to zero than a predetermined basic threshold, wherein when a divisor used to compute the average value is defined as n (n is a positive even number), the control unit adds one-half of the total of the sampling values in the preceding unit period and the total of n/2 of the sampling values in the current unit period and divides the resulting value by n, so as to obtain the average value in the current unit period.