CAMERA MODULE

• Main Authors: KAWASAKI ATSUKO, IWATA KATSUO, KOBAYASHI MITSUYOSHI, OGASAWARA TAKAYUKI, UENO RISAKO
• Format: Patent
• Language: English
• Published: 06.06.2013
• Subjects: ACCESSORIES THEREFOR; APPARATUS OR ARRANGEMENTS EMPLOYING ANALOGOUS TECHNIQUES USINGWAVES OTHER THAN OPTICAL WAVES; APPARATUS OR ARRANGEMENTS FOR TAKING PHOTOGRAPHS OR FORPROJECTING OR VIEWING THEM; CINEMATOGRAPHY; ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE; ELECTRICITY; ELECTROGRAPHY; HOLOGRAPHY; OPTICAL ELEMENTS, SYSTEMS, OR APPARATUS; OPTICS; PHOTOGRAPHY; PHYSICS; PICTORIAL COMMUNICATION, e.g. TELEVISION

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a camera module which offers high positioning accuracy in a compound-eye configuration and is capable of obtaining a high quality image from images acquired by using the compound-eye configuration.SOLUTION: According to an embodiment, a camera module comprises an image sensor 12 and a sub-lens array 31 including a main lens system and a sub-lens group. The image censor 12 includes pixel cells arranged in array. The main lens system guides light from a photographing target to the image sensor 12. The sub-lens group is located in an optical path between the main lens system and the image sensor 12. The sub-lens group forms an image piece for each pixel block. Each image piece corresponds to a part of a target image. An image block comprises a plurality of pixel cells. The sub-lens group is an integral part of a spacer 33 which is a support structure. The support structure is for supporting the sub-lens group on the image sensor 12.