Patent ID: 7609316

Claim:
A digital camera module comprising: a main body being a hollow cylinder having a longitudinal body axis, and including a first end and a second end; a barrel being fixed on an inner wall of the first end and having a longitudinal barrel axis; a lens element group received in the barrel and having a longitudinal lens axis; the body, barrel, and lens axes being parallel, wherein light passing through the lens element group is focused by the lens element group; a beam splitter received in the main body and located behind the lens element group and for receiving a focused light; a window positioned in line with the lens and the beam splitter; and an image sensor positioned at a location where the focused light reflected towards the image sensor is not reflected or refracted in the distance between the beam splitter and the image sensor; wherein the focused light contacting the beam splitter is directed in a first direction towards the window and a second direction towards the image sensor within the digital camera module.