Patent ID: 8342112

Claim:
A sewing machine, comprising: a bed; a needle plate that is provided on the bed and includes a needle hole; an image capture device that is adapted to capture an image facing downward from above the needle hole; an auxiliary optical member that is adapted to receive light and to let the received light pass through to an image capture device side of the auxiliary optical member; a switching device that switches the auxiliary optical member to one of being used and not being used; a command acquisition device that acquires a command to switch the auxiliary optical member to one of being used and not being used; and a control device that, in a case where the command has been acquired by the command acquisition device, controls the switching device to switch the auxiliary optical member to one of being used and not being used in accordance with the command, wherein: the switching device moves at least one of the auxiliary optical member and the image capture device to switch a positional relationship between the auxiliary optical member and the image capture device to one of at least a first position and a second position, the first position being a position in which the auxiliary optical member is disposed in an optical path of the image capture device, the second position being a position in which the auxiliary optical member is outside of the optical path, the optical path extending from the image capture device to an object whose image is to be captured; and the control device, in a case where the command has been acquired by the command acquisition device, controls the switching device to switch the positional relationship in accordance with the command automatically.