US 12,069,226 B2
Imaging device
Keisuke Masuda, Hitachinaka (JP); Hidenori Shinohara, Hitachinaka (JP); and Kenichi Takeuchi, Hitachinaka (JP)
Assigned to HITACHI ASTEMO, LTD., Hitachinaka (JP)
Appl. No. 17/792,087
Filed by HITACHI ASTEMO, LTD., Hitachinaka (JP)
PCT Filed Dec. 25, 2020, PCT No. PCT/JP2020/048703
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Jul. 11, 2022,
PCT Pub. No. WO2021/176821, PCT Pub. Date Sep. 10, 2021.
Claims priority of application No. 2020-038230 (JP), filed on Mar. 5, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2023/0048226 A1, Feb. 16, 2023
Int. Cl. H04N 13/204 (2018.01); G03B 37/04 (2021.01); H04N 23/55 (2023.01); H04N 23/90 (2023.01)
CPC H04N 13/204 (2018.05) [H04N 23/55 (2023.01); H04N 23/90 (2023.01); G03B 37/04 (2013.01)] 3 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An imaging device comprising a pair of camera modules each including an imaging element and a lens unit, optical axes of the lens units of the pair of camera modules being arranged in parallel to each other, wherein:
the pair of camera modules are arranged to be spaced apart from each other along a base line orthogonal to each of the optical axes and include a pair of imaging element substrates each mounting the imaging element;
each of the pair of camera modules has a configuration in which the imaging element and the lens unit are relatively arranged such that a center of the imaging element is separated from the optical axis by the same distance in the same direction, a direction in which the center of the imaging element is separated from the optical axis is an outward direction from a midpoint of the base line toward the optical axis along the base line;
one and the other of the pair of imaging element substrates are made of the same material;
with respect to a posture of one of the camera modules, the other of the camera modules is arranged in an inverted posture in which the other of the camera modules has rotated around a rotation axis along the optical axis
with respect to a posture of one of the imaging element substrates, the other of the imaging element substrates is arranged in an inverted posture in which the other of the imaging element substrates has rotated around the rotation axis;
to a read direction in which a signal is read from the imaging element and that has been set in advance in the one of the camera modules, a read direction, in which a signal is read from the imaging element of the other of the camera modules, is set to be opposite.