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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 30, 2012
Filed:
Feb. 27, 2009
Applicants:
Tatsuya Orihara, Hachioji, JP;
Mitsujiro Konno, Hino, JP;
Hitoshi Fukuhiro, Atsugi, JP;
Inventors:
Assignee:
Olympus Medical Systems Corp., Tokyo, JP;
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 7/18 (2006.01); H04N 5/225 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
An image pickup module comprises a lens assembly including a lens having a flange part, and a frame component for shading a circumferential surface excluding a neighborhood of a top portion of the flange part in the lens; an image pickup element which the top portion of the flange part touches; and an illumination element arranged around the lens assembly and the image pickup element. The image pickup module is constituted so that exit light from a luminescent surface of the illumination element does not reach directly to an exposed portion that is not shaded by the frame component of the flange part.