Patent ID: 7006303

Claim:
A camera device comprising: an image pickup member having an image pickup element and an image pickup lens disposed on a front side of the image pickup element; and at least one substantially triangular prism disposed on a front side of the image pickup member, each prism having a rear surface facing the image pickup lens, one side surface disposed toward a visual field side in a direction substantially perpendicular to an optical image pickup axis, and the other side surface disposed toward an opposite visual field side, wherein light incident on the one side surface of prism is reflected twice between an inner surface of the other side surfaced of the prism and an inner surface of the one side surface of the prism, wherein the reflected light is emitted from the rear surface of the prism to form an image on an image pickup element through the image pickup lens, wherein a first reflective member disposed on substantially entire other side surface of the prism totally reflects the light incident on the inner surface of the other side prism, and wherein a second reflective member disposed on an area, of the one side surface of the prism, in which the light incident on the inner surface of the one side prism is not totally reflected, totally reflects the light incident on the inner surface of the one side prism.