IMAGING DEVICE

摘要

An imaging device capable of providing a wide−range image by means of multiple cameras by suppressing parallax. The imaging device individually picks up elements of imaging obtained by dividing a wide−range object of imaging by using a plurality imaging means, and pastes up together the elements to form one image by means of a processing means that has received image information from each imaging means, wherein each imaging means comprises a lens (21) and an imaging element (23) for detecting a ray of light passed through the lens (21), and has a structure such that, when a primary ray of light positioned in a Gauss region is selected out of primary rays of light passing the center of the aperture diaphragm (22) of the lens (21) of an imaging means to define as an NP point (26) a point at which the extended linear component in the object space of the selected primary ray of light crosses the optical axis, the NP point (26) is set behind an imaging element (23) in each imaging means, and respective NP points (26) in a plurality of imaging means are assembled into a region having a specific radius with one NP point (26) as its center.