| 摘要 |
An image capturing apparatus illuminates and captures an image of an object using reflected light therefrom, with simplified distance measurement. A plurality of light-emitting devices (22, 24) are mounted around an image sensor (30), and a light guide member guides the light of the light-emitting devices to an image capturing region for illumination. The image capturing apparatus having the closely disposed capturing system and illumination system, further has a distance-measuring light-emitting device (52) and an aperture unit (5) provided thereon for generating an optical path having narrowed downside and broadened upside. Thus, diffused reflected light rays of a distance-measuring light-emitting device (52) can be selected, converged and output to one direction. It becomes possible to obtain sufficient irradiation amount even when using a low-power light-emitting device and to miniaturize a distance sensor irradiating spot light, contributing to miniaturization of the image capturing apparatus.
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