Ricoh Company, Ltd.

Kyocera Corporation

Yuusuke Hayashi

Shuichi Suzuki

Mitsuru Nakajima

Kenichi Yoshimura

Masayuki Satou

Seiji Yoshikawa

Toshiki Hatori

A light source unit includes a light source, a light source support to hold the light source, a fixing member which is attached to the light source support and includes a through-hole through which beams of light emitted from the light source pass, a lens holder inserted into the through-hole and attached to the fixing member by an adhesive; and a collimating lens to collimate the beams of light from the light source, wherein attachment surfaces of the adhesive for the lens holder has a tilted attachment surface tilted relative to the optical axis of the collimating lens.

Light source unit

A laser scanner includes an optical source emitting a laser beam; and an optical deflector deflecting the laser beam emitted from the optical source to scan an object with the laser beam deflected thereby, wherein the optical deflector includes a reflecting mirror; a motor rotating the reflecting mirror around an axis of the mirror: a first member fixed on a shaft of the motor, rotating with the shaft and a second member fixed on the axis of the mirror, engaging with the first member when the shaft rotates to rotate with the axis of the mirror.

Laser scanner

An imaging device able to simplify an optical system, able to reduce costs, and in addition capable of giving a restored image having a suitable quality in accordance with stop control and having a small influence of noise, and an image processing method of same, including an optical systemand an imaging elementforming a first order image and an image processing deviceforming the first order image to a high definition last image, wherein a control devicedetects stop information and controls a switching unitso as to input a dispersed image signal of an object captured by the imaging elementvia an AFEto the image processing deviceand input a dispersion-free restored image signal to a camera signal processing unitwhen not closing the stop down to a predetermined value, while directly input the dispersed image signal of the object captured by the imaging elementvia the AFEto the camera signal processing unitwithout passing through the image processing devicewhen closing the stop down to the predetermined value or more.

Imaging device and image processing method

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Kanagawa, Japan

Yuusuke Hayashi