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Patent Inventor Names
Takeo Sugawara0
Yoshio Natsume0
Date of Patent
November 13, 2007
0Patent Application Number
104871450
Date Filed
August 23, 2002
0Patent Primary Examiner
Patent abstract
An image pickup device according to the present invention comprises (1) a fiber optical plate constituted by bundling a plurality of optical fibers, including a core and a cladding covering an outer periphery thereof and having a light incident surface and a light-emitting surface inclined with respect to the optical axis direction of a plurality of optical fibers; (2) a plurality of columnar crystals having light permeability, formed on the light-emitting surface of the fiber optical plate; and (3) a solid-state image pickup device having photoelectric converters arrayed and formed in two-dimensional fashion on a main surface of a semiconductor substrate and optically coupled to a plurality of columnar crystals.
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