Abstract: An anti-shake apparatus for image stabilizing comprises a movable unit and a controller. The movable unit is movable for an anti-shake operation. The controller moves the movable unit to a predetermined position over the course of a predetermined time length before the anti-shake operation commences. The controller moves the movable unit at a decelerated, low rate of speed before finishing its movement to the predetermined position. The anti-shake operation is performed after completion of the movement to the predetermined position.

Abstract: An anti-shake apparatus of a photographing apparatus comprises a movable unit and a controller. The controller performs movement control of the movable unit for anti-shake operation. The movement control is set to the OFF state when the movable unit comes into contact with an end of its range of movement under a predetermined condition.

Abstract: An anti-shake apparatus for image stabilizing of a photographing apparatus comprises a movable unit and a controller. The movable unit is movable for an anti-shake operation. The controller controls the movable unit for the anti-shake operation, stops the anti-shake operation after an exposure time, moves the movable unit to a first position after the anti-shake operation, and holds the movable unit at the first position after the completion of a movement of the movable unit to the first position and until the photographing apparatus is set to a state where the next imaging operation can be performed. The first position is in a direction in which the movable unit would move according to the force of gravity, after the anti-shake operation is finished.

Abstract: An anti-shake apparatus for photographing apparatus comprises an angular velocity sensor and a controller. The angular velocity sensor detects an angular velocity. The controller controls the angular velocity sensor and performs an anti-shake operation on the basis of an output signal from the angular velocity sensor. The sensitivity in the anti-shake operation is set to low when it is determined that the photographing apparatus is fixed to a fixing apparatus compared to when it is determined that the photographing apparatus is not fixed to the fixing apparatus.

Abstract: An anti-shake apparatus for image stabilizing of a photographing apparatus comprises a movable unit and a controller. The controller controls the movement of the movable unit for anti-shake operation. The controller controls the movement of the movable unit such as to hold the movable unit at a position without performing the anti-shake operation, for a specified time period that is a part of the time period from the point when the exposure time of the photographing apparatus is finished to the point when the photographing apparatus is set to a state where the next imaging operation can be performed. The position is the initial position where the movable unit is located when the specified time period commences.

Abstract: An anti-shake apparatus for image stabilizing comprises an angular velocity sensor and a controller. The angular velocity sensor detects an angular velocity. The controller controls the angular velocity sensor and performs an anti-shake operation on the basis of an output signal from the angular velocity sensor. The controller performs a reduction of the value of the output signal during a predetermined period of the anti-shake operation, and does not perform the reduction except for during the predetermined period.

Abstract: An anti-shake apparatus for image stabilizing comprises an angular velocity sensor and a controller. The angular velocity sensor detects an angular velocity. The controller controls the angular velocity sensor and performs an anti-shake operation on the basis of an output signal from the angular velocity sensor. The controller performs a modification of an offset output in the value of the output signal during a predetermined period of the anti-shake operation, and does not perform the modification except for during the predetermined period.

Abstract: An anti-shake apparatus for image stabilizing comprises a movable unit and a controller. The movable unit is movable for an anti-shake operation. The controller stops the anti-shake operation after an exposure time and moves the movable unit to a first position after the anti-shake operation. The first position is a position of the movable unit before the exposure time and before the anti-shake operation. The controller moves the movable unit at a decelerated, low rate of speed before finishing its movement to the first position.

Abstract: An anti-shake apparatus comprises an angular velocity sensor and a controller. The angular velocity sensor detects an angular velocity. The controller controls the angular velocity sensor and performs an anti-shake operation based on the output signal from the angular velocity sensor. The controller calculates an angular velocity signal, based on the output signal from the angular velocity sensor before a predetermined period which is longer than a predetermined time interval and the output signal from the angular velocity sensor after the predetermined period, at the predetermined time interval, during the predetermined period.

Abstract: An anti-shake apparatus of a photographing apparatus comprises a photometric switch for a photometric operation, a release switch for a photographing operation, and a controller. The controller performs the photographing operation without an anti-shake operation when the release switch is set to the ON state and when it is determined that either a first elapsed time from the point when the main power supply is set to the ON state is not greater than a first time, or a second elapsed time from the point when the photometric switch is set to the ON state for the photometric operation is not greater than a second time.

Abstract: An anti-shake apparatus of a photographing apparatus, comprises a movable unit, a fixed unit, and an urging member. The movable unit has one of an imaging device and a hand-shake correcting lens, and can be moved in first and second directions. The first direction is perpendicular to an optical axis of a photographing optical system of the photographing apparatus. The second direction is perpendicular to the optical axis and the first direction. The fixed unit slidably supports the movable unit in both the first and second directions. The urging member extends, and then urges and fixes the movable unit when the urging member is in the off state, and shrinks, and then releases fixing the movable unit when the urging member is in the on state.

Abstract: An anti-shake apparatus of a photographing apparatus includes a signal processor. A fixed unit slidably supports, in perpendicular first and second directions, a movable unit having an imaging device or a hand-shake correcting lens. The movable unit or fixed unit has a magnetic-field change detector which has a horizontal magnetic-field change-detecting element for detecting a first location and a vertical magnetic-field change-detecting element for detecting a second location. Another of the movable unit and the fixed unit has a position-detecting magnet unit which faces the magnetic-field change detector. The signal processor outputs a first detected-position signal and a second detected-position signal. The controller calculates the first location for the first detected-position signal and the second location for the second detected-position signal.

Abstract: A lighting control apparatus of a photographing apparatus, comprises a plurality of lighting devices, a continuous imaging control processor, and a pulse-signal generating and control processor. The plurality of lighting devices illuminate a photographic subject by receiving a pulse signal which has a certain cycle in the exposure time. The continuous imaging control processor performs a continuous imaging operation where a plurality of images of the photographic subject are continuously imaged. The pulse-signal generating and controlling processor supplies a pulse signal to each of the lighting devices, cyclically every exposure time, so that one lighting device is illuminated at any given time.

Abstract: A photographing apparatus comprises a movable unit, a fixed unit, and a control unit. The movable unit has an imaging device, and can be moved in a first direction. The first direction is perpendicular to an optical axis of a photographing optical system of the photographing apparatus. The fixed unit slidably supports the movable unit in the first direction. The control apparatus controls moving the movable unit to two or more movement-positions in the movable unit's movement range, and obtains a wide-angle image signal which is a combination of the two or more image signals being imaged at two or more movement-positions of the movable unit.

Abstract: An anti-shake apparatus of a photographing-apparatus comprises a movable-unit and a fixed-unit. The movable-unit has an imaging device, and is movable in a first-direction which is perpendicular to an optical axis of the photographing-apparatus, and performs an anti-shake operation by moving in the first-direction. The fixed-unit slidably supports the movable-unit in the first-direction. The movable-unit has first and second hall-elements which are used for detecting a position of the movable-unit in the first-direction as a first location, in order to calculate a detected-position signal. The fixed-unit has first- and second-magnets which are used for detecting the first location. The first hall-element faces the first-magnet in a second-direction which is perpendicular to the first-direction and the optical axis. The second hall-element faces the second-magnet in the second-direction.

Abstract: An anti-shake apparatus comprises a movable-unit, a fixed-unit, and a control-unit. The movable-unit has an imaging-device, and is movable in first- and second-directions, and performs an anti-shake operation by moving in the first- and second-directions. The fixed-unit slidably supports the movable-unit in both the first- and second-directions. The movable-unit has a horizontal-coil which is used for moving in the first-direction, and a vertical-coil which is used for moving in the second-direction. The fixed-unit has a horizontal-magnet which is used for moving in the first-direction and which faces the horizontal-coil in the second-direction, and a vertical-magnet which is used for moving in the second-direction and which faces the vertical-coil in the first-direction.

Abstract: An anti-shake apparatus of a photographing apparatus, comprises a movable unit, a fixed unit, and an urging member. The movable unit has one of an imaging device and a hand-shake correcting lens, and can be moved in first and second directions. The first direction is perpendicular to an optical axis of a photographing optical system of the photographing apparatus. The second direction is perpendicular to the optical axis and the first direction. The fixed unit slidably supports the movable unit in both the first and second directions. The urging member extends, and then urges and fixes the movable unit when the urging member is in the off state, and shrinks, and then releases fixing the movable unit when the urging member is in the on state.

Abstract: A photographing apparatus comprises a detecting unit and an indicating unit. The detecting unit performs a detecting operation to detect a first quantity of a hand-shake of the photographing apparatus in a first direction, and to detect a second quantity of the hand-shake in a second direction. The first direction is perpendicular to an optical axis of a photographing lens of the photographing apparatus. The second direction is perpendicular to the optical axis and the first direction. The indicating unit performs an indicating operation to indicate the first and second quantities.

Abstract: A rotary encoder has a disc, a pair of photo-interrupters, an adjusting member, and a shifting controller. The disc rotates around a rotating axis and has slits that are formed circumferentially at given intervals. Each of the photo-interrupters has a light-emitting device and a photo-detecting device opposite one another, and generates two signals with a phase difference. Each photo-interrupter is pivotable around a pivot coaxial with the rotating axis, and is arranged along the circumferential direction of the disc so as to position the slits between the light-emitting device and the photo-detector. The adjusting member contacts the pair of photo-interrupters, and is movable along a shifting direction corresponding to a radial direction of the disc, so as to engage the pair of photo-interrupters. The adjusting member adjusts a relative position-relationship between the pair of photo-interrupters associated with the phase difference.

Abstract: An anti-shake apparatus of a photographing apparatus comprises a movable unit, a fixed unit, and a signal-processing unit. The movable unit has an imaging device and is movable in first and second directions. The fixed unit slidably supports the movable unit in both the first and second directions. The movable unit has a horizontal magnetic-field change-detecting element for detecting a first location, and a vertical magnetic-field change-detecting element for detecting a second location. The signal-processing unit outputs a first detected-position signal, which specifies the first location on the basis of output signals of the horizontal magnetic-field change-detecting element, and outputs a second detected-position signal, which specifies the second location on the basis of output signals of the vertical magnetic-field change-detecting element.