Patent attributes
Disclosed is an image pickup apparatus having a liquid crystal light controlling device in front of an image pickup device. A liquid crystal light controlling device has a rear face facing an image pickup device and has input terminals disposed at the circumferential positions of the rear face. An image pickup device has a package and a sensor portion held in the package for picking up an image of a subject. At positions of the package facing the liquid crystal light controlling device, there are disposed output terminals for supplying driving voltage to each of the input terminals of the liquid crystal light controlling device. The driving voltage is supplied from the output terminals on the package to the input terminals through a conducting portion of a holding member.
