Patent ID: 7607841

Claim:
A pickup device driving apparatus comprising: a base of which the position is fixed with respect to a lens part; a movable part which is provided to face the base; a pickup device which is attached to the movable part in a state that a pickup surface is perpendicular to an optical axial direction; a first support part and a second support part which are provided between the base and the movable part and support the movable part; a first rotating part which is provided between the base and the first support part; a second rotating part which is provided between the base and the second support part at a position which is moved from the first rotating part in the optical axial direction in parallel; a third rotating part which is provided between the movable part and the first support part; a fourth rotating part which is provided between the movable part and the second support part at a position which forms a vertex of a parallelogram with respect to the first rotating part, the second rotating part, and the third rotating part; and a driving part which changes the position of pickup device relative to the lens part, wherein rotating center axes of the first rotating part, the second rotating part, the third rotating part, and the fourth rotating part are perpendicular to the optical axial direction and parallel to one another, and wherein the position of the pickup device is changed relative to the lens part in a state that the first rotating part, the second rotating part, the third rotating part, and the fourth rotating part form vertexes of the parallelogram.