An image pickup device which can obtain an image of wide range picked up
by a plurality of cameras is provided by preventing occurrence of
parallax.The image pickup device is constructed such that an object of
wide range is divided into a plurality of divided object portions to be
separately picked up by a plurality of image pickup elements and images
of divided object portions are processed into one combined video image by
a processing element to which information on video images supplied from
the respective image pickup elements is input; the image pickup element
includes a lens 21 and an image pickup element 23 which detects rays of
light passed through the lens 21, and when principal rays positioned in a
Gauss area are selected from among the principal rays passing through the
center of an aperture stop 22 of the lens 21 in the image pickup element
and a point where linear components of the selected principal rays in an
object side space are extended to intersect an optical axis is defined as
an NP point 26, in respective image pickup elements a position of the NP
point 26 is set behind the image pickup element 23 and respective NP
points of the plurality of image pickup elements are made to congregate
within a predetermined radius area in which one NP point 26 is centered.