PURPOSE: To simultaneously take in plural pieces of video and to easily take images even into a narrow or complex place by utilizing the fineness and flexibility of an image guide, by connecting the image guide branched into plural parts at the image picking up side with a television camera after the image guide is tied up in a bundle at the image receiving side.

CONSTITUTION: The picture image transmitting device of this invention is made by tying up optical fibers in one bundle for transmitting picture images and can be bent freely to a fair extent (with the bendable radius depending on the material) except both end parts. This system is an example of a system which simultaneously takes four pictures in one television camera. The image guide of this system is branched into four parts at the image picking up side and four pictures are respectively taken in the four image guides. The four image guides are tied in one bundle at the image receiving side and connected with the image receiving section of the television camera 3.