Patent ID: 8885016

Claim:
An omnidirectional camera, comprising a camera assembly having two or more horizontal camera units provided radially and a cover for accommodating said camera assembly, wherein said horizontal camera has a wide angle lens unit and a rectangular image pickup element which acquires an image through said wide angle lens unit, wherein a lens hole, through which an objective lens of said horizontal camera units come out, is formed on said cover, a lens hood is provided on said cover concentrically with said lens hole, wherein an outer surface of said lens hood is square, with a concave curved surface formed along a diagonal line in a diagonal direction on a surface of said lens hood, wherein four portions separated by said concave curved surface are created, and a height of a portion parallel to a short side of said image pickup element is lower than a height of a portion parallel to a long side of said image pickup element, said lens hood has a shape of surface which does not intercept a field angle of said horizontal camera units, and a height of said portion parallel to said long side of said image pickup element is larger than a protruding amount of said objective lens from said cover.