Olympus Optical Company, Ltd.

Olympus Corporation

Kenji Miyata

Toyokazu Mizoguchi

Toshimichi Iizima

Noriyuki Fujimori

Tsutomu Nakamura

Masanori Ogata

Shigeru Hosokai

According to the present invention, a capsular endoscope having at least an image pickup optical system, an illumination unit, an image pickup portion, and a circuit board comprises a marker shooting unit that indwells a marker member in a body cavity. Consequently, a predetermined marker is indwelled in a desired region such as a lesion discovered using the capsular endoscope so that the region can be readily rediscovered during reexamination.

Capsular endoscope

A solid-state image pickup apparatus having over solid-state image pickup device chip a hermetic seal portion comprising a flat-plate portion of a transparent member and a frame portion formed on a side portion of a lower surface of the flat-plate portion, said frame portion including a metal wiring, a bump formed on said solid-state image pickup device chip and electrically connected to the metal wiring, and a sealing region for sealing the periphery of the bump by a sealing material, thereby achieving the solid-state image pickup apparatus capable of being packaged in a relatively small size and capable of improving throughput and at the same time having a hermetic seal portion which can be readily electrically connected to an external terminal.

Solid-state image pickup apparatus having a hermetic seal portion and fabricating method thereof

A solid-state image pickup apparatus having hermetic seal portion capable of packaged in a smaller size by a simple construction and fabricated with high precision at wafer level is constructed such that an epoxy-type resin sheet having opening portion only at light-receiving portion is adhered to solid-state image pickup device chip by an adhesive and a transparent member capable of becoming a flat-plate portion is adhered onto the epoxy-type resin sheet by means of an adhesive.

Solid-state image pickup apparatus and fabricating method thereof

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Okaya, Japan

Kenji Miyata