Imaging module and imaging device
AssigneeSamsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
InventorYuji Nishida
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Abstract
An imaging module includes an imaging element having a light-receiving surface configured to receive light, and a cover covering the light-receiving surface of the imaging element. The cover is curved such that a light-transmitting surface of the cover that faces the light-receiving surface protrudes toward the imaging element and the imaging element is stacked on the light-transmitting surface of the cover, and the light-receiving surface is concavely curved toward an opposite side of the imaging element that is opposite to the light-transmitting surface.
Claims20
An imaging module comprising:
- an imaging element having a light-receiving surface configured to receive light;
- and
- a cover covering the light-receiving surface of the imaging element,
- wherein the cover is curved such that a light-transmitting surface of the cover that faces the light-receiving surface protrudes toward the imaging element, and
- wherein the imaging element is stacked on the light-transmitting surface of the cover, and the light-receiving surface is concavely curved toward an opposite side of the imaging element that is opposite to the light-transmitting surface.
An imaging device comprising:
- an imaging module comprising an imaging element having a light-receiving surface, and a cover covering the light-receiving surface of the imaging element;
- a lens configured to focus light on the light-receiving surface of the imaging element;
- and
- a retainer retaining the lens,
- wherein the cover is curved such that a light-transmitting surface of the cover that faces the light-receiving surface of the imaging element protrudes toward the imaging element, and
- wherein the imaging element is stacked on the light-transmitting surface of the cover, and the light-receiving surface is concavely curved toward an opposite side of the imaging element that is opposite to the light-receiving surface.
An imaging device comprising:
- an imaging module;
- a lens configured to focus light onto an imaging element of the imaging module;
- and
- a retainer retaining the lens,
- wherein the imaging module comprises:
- the imaging element having a light-receiving surface configured to receive light and having an electrode pad at a periphery of the light-receiving surface;
- a cover covering the light-receiving surface of the imaging element and having a wire connected to the electrode pad at a periphery of a light-transmitting surface of the cover that faces the light-receiving surface of the imaging element, and
- an interposer substrate that has a space formed therein in which at least the light-receiving surface of the imaging element is arranged, and which is connected to the wire of the cover,
- wherein the cover is curved such that the light-transmitting surface of the cover protrudes toward the imaging element, and
- wherein the imaging element is stacked on the light-transmitting surface of the cover with an adhesive layer therebetween, and the light-receiving surface of the imaging element is concavely curved toward an opposite side of the imaging element that is opposite to the cover.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.