Image pickup device and portable terminal

Abstract

To obtain a small-sized and thin image pickup device suitable to be housed in a portable terminal, having excellent shielding properties by which communication functions are not obstructed by electromagnetic waves generated by an image sensor and the image sensor is not affected by electromagnetic waves generated for the purpose of communication, without enlarging the image pickup device. To make the image pickup device to be one wherein there are provided a photographing optical system for guiding light of a subject, a lens barrel for holding the photographing optical system, an image sensor that receives light of a subject guided by the photographing optical system, and converts it into an image signal and a circuit board on which the image sensor is attached, and at least a part of the lens barrel is formed to have electrical conductivity.

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.