Image pickup device

Abstract

An image pickup device which can obtain an image of wide range picked up by a plurality of cameras is provided by preventing occurrence of parallax. The image pickup device is constructed such that an object of wide range is divided into a plurality of divided object portions to be separately picked up by a plurality of image pickup elements and images of divided object portions are processed into one combined video image by a processing element to which information on video images supplied from the respective image pickup elements is input; the image pickup element includes a lensand an image pickup elementwhich detects rays of light passed through the lens, and when principal rays positioned in a Gauss area are selected from among the principal rays passing through the center of an aperture stopof the lensin the image pickup element and a point where linear components of the selected principal rays in an object side space are extended to intersect an optical axis is defined as an NP point, in respective image pickup elements a position of the NP pointis set behind the image pickup elementand respective NP points of the plurality of image pickup elements are made to congregate within a predetermined radius area in which one NP pointis centered.