Patent ID: 7746402

Claim:
An image sensing device comprising: a fiber optical block in which a plurality of optical fibers are arrayed so that their optical axes are parallel to each other, said fiber optical block being formed so that a two-dimensional image inputted from a light inputting end face of said fiber optical block is transmitted to a light outputting end face of said fiber optical block, wherein said light inputting end face and said light outputting end face are parallel to one another and said light outputting end face is tilted at a predetermined acute angle θ with respect to said optical axes; and a solid-state image pickup device having a light-receiving portion with a two-dimensional pixel array, said light-receiving portion having a light-receiving surface optically coupled to said light outputting end face of said fiber optical block, and a plurality of electrode pads arranged on outer peripheral portions of a surface substantially level with said light-receiving surface, wherein said fiber optical block has a cuboid shape and is arranged so that, when viewed from a side of said light-receiving surface, said optical axes are tilted at said predetermined angle θ toward a first side out of four sides surrounding said light-receiving surface, so that said plurality of electrode pads are provided on at least one of three of the outer peripheral portions excluding a first outer peripheral portion located at said first side, and so that no electrode pads are provided on said first outer peripheral portion, and wherein said light outputting end face of said fiber optical block has an output region, corresponding to a whole region of said light receiving surface, and a non-output region, said light outputting end face of said fiber optical block including the output region and the non-output region is larger than said light-receiving surface, and a part on the side of said first side of said fiber optical block including the non-output region of the light outputting end face is protruded from above said light-receiving portion toward said first outer peripheral portion side.