Patent ID: 7701486

Claim:
An image capturing device, comprising a rectangular image capturing element which has long sides and short sides; an image capturing optical system which forms an image of a subject on the rectangular image capturing element; a first driving device which moves the rectangular image capturing element in a first direction which is slanted by a predetermined angle from the long side and the short side of an outer shape of the rectangular image capturing element in a plane perpendicular to an optical axis of the image capturing optical system; and a second driving device which moves the rectangular image capturing element in a second direction which is slanted by a predetermined angle from the long side and the short side of the outer shape of the rectangular image capturing element in the plane perpendicular to the optical axis of the image capturing optical system, but the second direction differs from the first direction, wherein both an angle between the first direction and the long side of the outer shape of the rectangular image capturing element and an angle between the second direction and the long side of the outer shape of the rectangular image capturing element are equal to or less than an angle between the long side of the outer shape of the image capturing element and a diagonal line of the outer shape of the rectangular image capturing element.