Patent ID: 8477201

Claim:
An image stabilizing apparatus, comprising: a rotation shake detection unit configured to detect a rotation shake generated in a direction not parallel with an optical axis of the image stabilizing apparatus; a first processing unit configured to process a detection signal of the rotation shake into a first correction amount; a translational shake detection unit configured to detect a translational shake generated in a direction perpendicular to the optical axis of the image stabilizing apparatus; a second processing unit configured to process a detection signal of the translational shake into a second correction amount; a shake correction unit configured to correct an image shake generated on an image plane of an image pickup apparatus based on the first correction amount and the second correction amount; an initialization unit configured to initialize an integrated correction amount which is obtained by integrating the first correction amount with the second correction amount; and a control unit configured to instruct the initialization unit to initialize, based on an image pickup start instruction of the image pickup apparatus, prior to a photographing operation, the integrated correction amount to move the shake correction unit.