Patent ID: 6917385
Filing Date: 2005-07-12
Classification: G02B,H04N

Abstract:
1. An image input device including: a mirror body which is designed in a polygonal prism form and formed of mirror faces on the side peripheral surfaces thereof to reflect image pickup light from a subject at a mirror face; a linear sensor for taking therein the image pickup light reflected from each mirror face of said mirror body and subjecting the image pickup light thus taken to photoelectric conversion, wherein said mirror body is disposed so that the length direction thereof is substantially parallel to the length direction of said linear sensor, and provided so as to be rotatable around the center of a plane which is substantially perpendicular to the length direction of said mirror body; a housing in which said mirror body and said linear sensor are accommodated, and a slender incidence window for passing the image pickup light therethrough into said housing is formed so that the length direction thereof is substantially parallel to the length direction of said mirror body; and support legs which are formed at the formation side of said incidence window of said housing so as to expand from said housing to the outside and support said housing, said support legs being retractably provided in said housing.