Nidec Copal Corporation

Ryuzo Nakano

Taizo Takiguchi

Kouichi Kubo

To reduce increased consumption of the recording capacity of a recording medium to record generated image data, an imaging device includes an imaging element and an image processor that receive subject light through an opening in a housing and generate image data, a recording controller that records the image data generated by the imaging processor onto a memory card, a lens cover movable to a position at which the lens cover covers the opening to restrict the subject light from entering the imaging element, and a determiner that detects a position of the lens cover based on the image data generated by the imaging processor and determines whether the lens cover covers the opening. The recording controller stops recording the image data onto the memory card when the determiner determines that the lens cover covers the opening.

Imaging device, imaging program, and imaging method

An optical range finder is provided with a projection unit for projecting luminous flux to an object located in an optical axis direction, a detection unit for receiving the luminous flux returned from the object, a holding frame housing the projection unit and the detection unit, and a support substrate on which the holding frame is supported. The holding frame has a partition wall for separating the detection unit and the projection unit from each other. An end of the partition wall is provided with a tip protruding from a bottom of the holding frame. In the support substrate, a groove is formed in a surface side which comes in contact with the bottom of the holding frame to be engaged with the tip of the partition wall. Light leaked from the projection unit through a thickness of the support substrate to the detection unit is shut off by a combination of the tip and the groove.

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Tokyo, Japan

Ryuzo Nakano