Patent 7643738 was granted and assigned to Panasonic on January, 2010 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
An imaging device, such as a digital camera, has a mechanism for compensating an image blur caused by hand jiggling and is capable of consecutively shooting, through one operation of a shutter operation section (36), frames of an image in a state where the mechanism (20) is operational and in a state where the mechanism is not operational.