Abstract: The present invention provides an image-shake correction apparatus comprising: an image displacement device that displaces on an image forming plane an image formed by an image-capturing optical system; an image-shake correction device that displaces an image by use of the image displacement device in such a way as to cancel an image shake due to a vibration exerted on the image-capturing optical system; and an output device that outputs to a predetermined external apparatus information on image displacement by the image displacement device, in order to prevent the occurrence of defects due to image-shake correction, information on the image-shake correction can be supplied to an external apparatus that obtains capturing conditions of a camera and implements predetermined processing.

Abstract: The present invention provides an image shake correcting apparatus including a shake signal output device, an image displacing device, and an image shake correcting device, comprising: a pan/tilt detecting device which detects panning or tilting of said optical system; an image shake correction stopping device which stops image shake correction by said image shake correcting device when said panning or tilting has been detected; a pan/tilt end detecting device which detects the end of said panning or tilting; an image shake correction restarting device which causes said image shake correcting device to resume image shake correction when the end of said panning or tilting has been detected; and an object frequency band altering device which raises, for a prescribed length of time after the resumption of said image shake correction, the cutoff frequency on the low frequency side of the frequency band covered by said image shake correction.

Abstract: The present invention provides an image-shake correction apparatus comprising: an image displacement device that displaces on an image forming plane an image formed by an image-capturing optical system; an image-shake correction device that displaces an image by use of the image displacement device in such a way as to cancel an image shake due to a vibration exerted on the image-capturing optical system; and an output device that outputs to a predetermined external apparatus information on image displacement by the image displacement device, in order to prevent the occurrence of defects due to image-shake correction, information on the image-shake correction can be supplied to an external apparatus that obtains capturing conditions of a camera and implements predetermined processing.

Abstract: The present invention provides an image shake correcting apparatus including a shake signal output device, an image displacing device, and an image shake correcting device, comprising: a pan/tilt detecting device which detects panning or tilting of said optical system; an image shake correction stopping device which stops image shake correction by said image shake correcting device when said panning or tilting has been detected; a pan/tilt end detecting device which detects the end of said panning or tilting; an image shake correction restarting device which causes said image shake correcting device to resume image shake correction when the end of said panning or tilting has been detected; and an object frequency band altering device which raises, for a prescribed length of time after the resumption of said image shake correction, the cutoff frequency on the low frequency side of the frequency band covered by said image shake correction.

Abstract: If a remote control pan head on which a TV camera is mounted is installed on the rooftop of a building for example, the TV camera shoots an image in which a part of the building appears. If an operator designates a point on the outline of the building within the image shot by the camera, an image processing apparatus can automatically determine the outline continuing from the designated point. Then, a shooting range restricting device controls the pan head to restrict changeable ranges of a shooting direction and a shooting angle of view of the camera according to the determined outline of the building so that the shot image can be prevented from being spoiled by the building.

Abstract: When a movement destination P is designated, a switching time t1 when the movement is switched from acceleration to constant-speed-movement and a switching time t2 when the movement is switched from the constant-speed-movement to deceleration are determined with respect to a designated time T0. Then, a constant-speed-movement start position A and a deceleration start position B are set. Next, the constant speed (inclination of a straight line AB) during the constant-speed-movement period is found. An operation equation of the acceleration period is determined with an exponential function so that the panhead is smoothly shifted from the acceleration to the constant-speed-movement. In like manner, an operation equation of the deceleration period is determined with an exponential function so that the panhead is smoothly shifted from the constant-speed-movement to the deceleration.