Patent ID: 7615734

Claim:
An image capture device, which illuminates a subject, receives light reflected from the subject, and captures an image of the subject, comprising: an image sensor, which receives the reflected light; a plurality of light-emitting elements, mounted in positions on the periphery of the image sensor; a light-guiding member, which guides light from the plurality of light-emitting elements to an image capture range and illuminates the image capture range; an optical unit, accommodated within the light-guiding member, to guide light reflected by a subject within the illuminated image capture range to the image sensor; an optical filter, provided on a subject side of the optical unit and the light-guiding member, and installed in a case; a hood for blocking light outside the image capture range of the optical unit; a plurality of protrusions provided on the light-guiding member and pressed by a lower end of the hood of which an upper end of the hood is pressed by the optical filter installed in the case; and a slit provided in the lower portion of the hood.