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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 20, 2024
Filed:
Dec. 25, 2020
Hitachi Astemo, Ltd., Hitachinaka, JP;
Keisuke Masuda, Hitachinaka, JP;
Hidenori Shinohara, Hitachinaka, JP;
Kenichi Takeuchi, Hitachinaka, JP;
HITACHI ASTEMO, LTD., Hitachinaka, JP;
Abstract
Provided is an imaging device capable of reliably achieving both widening an angle of view and an improvement in productivity. An imaging deviceincludes a pair of camera moduleseach including an imaging elementand a lens unit, in which optical axes OA of the lens unitsare arranged in parallel to each other. Each of the pair of camera moduleshas a configuration in which the imaging elementand the lens unitare relatively arranged such that a center C of the imaging elementis separated from the optical axis OA by the same distance in the same direction. With respect to the posture of one camera module, the other camera modulesis arranged in an inverted posture in which the other camera moduleshas rotated around a rotation axis RA along the optical axis OA. To read directions Dh, Dv in which signals are read from the imaging elementand that have been set in advance in one camera module, read directions Dh, Dv, in which signals are read from the imaging elementof the other camera module, are set to be opposite.