Patent ID: 8369697

Claim:
An optical device comprising: a shake detection unit configured to detect shake of the optical device; a correction unit configured to correct image blur in a sensed image; a position detection unit configured to detect position of said correction unit; a correction control unit configured to control driving of a shake correction unit based on an output of said shake detection unit and on a position of said correction unit; a panning detection unit configured to detect whether the optical device is panning and detect a direction of the panning if the optical device is panning; an eccentricity direction detection unit configured to detect an eccentricity direction from a center of a movable range of the shake correction unit based on an output of said position detection unit; and a changing unit configured to change correction characteristics of said correction control unit, wherein said changing unit changes the correction characteristics of said correction control unit based on the eccentricity direction detected by said eccentricity direction detection unit and the panning direction detected by said panning detection unit.