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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 03, 2006
Filed:
Oct. 28, 2002
Applicant:
Koichi Yoshikawa, Kanagawa, JP;
Inventor:
Koichi Yoshikawa, Kanagawa, JP;
Assignee:
Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 7/00 (2006.01); G02B 13/06 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
An imaging device includes a plurality of plane mirrors disposed into a polygonal pyramid shape, and a plurality of cameras disposed so as to individually face to the plurality of plane mirrors, wherein each of the plurality of cameras includes a lens, and an incident angle of a light beam traveling along an optical axis of the lens of each of the plurality of cameras on the corresponding one of the plurality of plane mirrors is less than 45°. With this configuration, the sizes of the mirrors and the whole size of the imaging device are reduced, to thereby miniaturize the imaging device.