Patent ID: 8780264

Claim:
A camera driving apparatus, comprising: a camera section including an imaging element having an imaging plane, a lens which has an optical axis and forms an image of a subject on the imaging plane, and a lens barrel for holding the lens; a fixed unit including a protrusion section which is formed of a magnetic member at least partially and has a shape of a part of a spherical face; a movable unit for supporting the camera section, the movable unit including an attracting magnet for generating a magnetic attracting force for the magnetic member, and a conical contact face with which the protrusion section is loosely engageable and contactable by the magnetic attracting force, the movable unit being freely pivotable with respect to a sphere center of the spherical face of the protrusion section; a panning driving section for inclining the camera section with respect to the fixed unit in a panning direction; a tilting driving section for inclining the camera section with respect to the fixed unit in a tilting direction which is perpendicular to the panning direction; a rolling driving section for rotating the camera section with respect to the fixed unit in a rolling direction centered around the optical axis of the lens; a detector for detecting an inclining angle of the camera section with respect to the fixed unit in the panning and tilting directions and a rotating angle of the camera section in the rolling direction; and a line for electrically connecting the camera section and an external circuit to each other, the line being spirally wound around the protrusion section.