Patent ID: 8857029

Claim:
A mounting apparatus comprising: a substrate; a prism having a first surface on which light from the substrate is incident and a second surface from which the incident light goes out after the incident light is refracted; an adjustment unit that adjusts a position of the substrate and a position of the prism by moving the substrate and the prism relatively with the first surface of the prism and the substrate being opposed to each other; an imaging unit that is arranged in an optical path of the light that goes out from the second surface; and a control unit configured to control an amount by which the adjustment unit moves the substrate and the prism relatively according to image data which is captured by the imaging unit so as to mount the prism on the substrate such that the first surface has contact with the substrate, wherein the imaging unit captures an image of the second surface and captures an image of the substrate via the prism, the substrate being opposed to the first surface, the control unit includes a substrate recognition unit that recognizes at least a part of the image of the substrate which is captured via the prism, by performing an image recognition process on the image data, and an optical component recognition unit that recognizes at least a part of the image of the second surface by performing an image recognition process on the image data, and the control unit controls the amount by which the substrate and the prism are moved relatively, according to at least the part of the image of the substrate and at least the part of the image of the second surface.