IMAGING DEVICE HAVING MINIMIZED PACKAGING OF REMOTE SENSORS FOR VIDEO IMAGING AND THE LIKE

摘要

A minimized image-sensing device has a housing with an objective lens that collects light from an object and focuses an image of the object toward a Littrow prism having angles of 30, 60 and 90 degrees. A solid state image sensor chip having an array of silicon-based light sensitive pixels is located along the hypotenuse of the prism such that the pixel array receives the focused image transmitted through the prism.