Patent ID: 8204282

Claim:
An image input device, comprising: a lens array in which a plurality of lenses are arrayed; a shielding member configured to prevent a crosstalk on an image surface of light rays passing each of lenses of the lens array; a flat board member configured to regulate a position of a living body in a lens optical axis direction of the lens array when contacting the living body; an image pickup part configured to include an image surface and pick up a compound eye image, which is a set of reduced images of an object inside the living body which position is regulated by the flat board member, the reduced images approximately formed on the image surface by the plurality of lenses of the lens array; and a process part configured to re-compose a single image from the compound eye image picked up by the image pickup part, wherein the single image re-composed by the process part is input as an object image, and wherein the shielding member is arranged between the lens array and the image surface and includes rectangle apertures respective to the plurality of lenses of the lens array, such that when a size of each of the rectangle apertures is denoted by g×h (g and h denote respective lengths of edges of a cross-sectional surface of the rectangular aperture in a surface approximately orthogonal to a lens optical axis of the lens array), a distance from an approximately main surface of each lens of the lens array to the object is denoted by a, a distance from the approximately main surface of each lens of the lens array to the image surface is denoted by b, a size of the image surface is denoted by x×y (x and y denote respective lengths of edges of the image surface which is rectangle), and a size of a visual field at the position of the object is denoted by u×v (u and v are respective lengths of edges of the visual field which is rectangle), a relationship (i) or a relationship (ii) is satisfied: g×a/b+x≧u , and h×a/b+y≧v (i) or h×a/b+y≧u , and g×a/b+x≧v (ii).