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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 17, 2009
Filed:
Sep. 26, 2006
Makoto Sanou, Chiba, JP;
Hirokazu Fujioka, Ibaraki, JP;
Makoto Sanou, Chiba, JP;
Hirokazu Fujioka, Ibaraki, JP;
Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
Disclosed herein is a camera module including: a camera body including a lens-barrel holding a shooting optical system, a substrate attached to the lens-barrel, an image pickup device incorporated in the lens-barrel and operative to pick up an image of an object focused by the shooting optical system and to output an image pickup signal, and a signal processing unit provided on the substrate and operative to receive the image pickup signal outputted from the image pickup device and to perform a predetermined signal processing; and a shield case covering the lens-barrel and the substrate and operative to provide electromagnetic shielding for the image pickup device and the signal processing unit.