Abstract: To provide a template holder in which parts such as screws for mounting a template to a template mounting member is not lost. A template holder, in which in a state in which an elastic strut 94 is inserted into a holding hole 81 of a template 80, is pressed and is caused to abut upon an end surface 91a of a base member 91a by the elastic strut 94 by operating a pressing strut 95, whereby while the template 80 is mounted to a holding member 91, the holding member 91 is departed from the template 80 by operating the pressing strut 95 to thereby enable the template 80 to be removed from the elastic strut 94 and the holding member 91, wherein the pressing strut 95 and the elastic strut 94 are held by the holding member 91 when the template 80 is attached and detached.

Abstract: A solid-state imaging element comprising a plurality of light-receiving sensors that convert optical signals into electrical signals and a memory storing the electrical signals. The memory is formed of a plurality of line buffers corresponding to the pixel units processed in an image data encoder. The solid-state imaging element eliminates the need to rearrange image data for encoding.