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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 29, 2016
Filed:
Feb. 03, 2014
Toshiba Tec Kabushiki Kaisha, Shinagawa-ku, Tokyo, JP;
Takashi Shiraishi, Kanagawa-ken, JP;
Shinsuke Yajima, Shizuoka-ken, JP;
Hidehiro Naito, Shizuoka-ken, JP;
Tomonari Kakino, Shizuoka-ken, JP;
TOSHIBA TEC KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An image pick-up device which photographs an object to generate an image signal representing the object, including: a housing including an opening; a transparent plate which covers the opening; an image detector arranged in the housing; an optical lens forming an image of the object on the image detector through the transparent plate; a lighting device arranged in the housing and placed both in an inner area in which an imaging area outside the housing is folded into the housing with reference to one surface of the transparent plate, and in an outer area of the imaging area; and an optical-path modifying element which causes an optical path of the light to be refracted such that the light is emitted from a virtual image of the lighting device, the virtual image being placed outside the inner area.