To provide an easy-to-mount and low-cost ultrasonic reception device or the like.

This ultrasonic reception device has a light source 11; a demultiplexer 12; an ultrasonic detection element 13; a demultiplexer 16 demultiplexing light from the ultrasonic detection element 13; a photodetector 17 detecting first light from the demultiplexer 16; amplifiers 18a-18d; A/D converters 19a-19d; a photodetector 20 detecting second light from the demultiplexer 16 in a spatial phase different from the photodetector 17; amplifiers 21a-21d; A/D converters 22a-22d executing A/D conversion; memories 24a-24d and 25a-25d storing output of the A/D converters 19a-19d and 22a-22d; a frame memory 26 composing and storing data held in the memories 24a-24d and 25a-25d; a signal processing part 27; an image processing part 28; and a display part 29.