Receiving Apparatus

• US 20090076352A1
• Filed: 08/29/2006
• Published: 03/19/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 08/29/2005
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Olympus Corporation
• Original Assignee: Olympus Corporation
• Inventors: Nakatsuchi, Kazutaka, Kimoto, Seiichiro, Shigemori, Toshiaki, Fujita, Manabu, Matsui, Akira, Nagase, Ayako
• Application Number:
  US11/576,512
• Publication Number:
  US 20090076352A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 600/302
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 1/00016 using wireless means
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 1/00036 Means for power saving, e.g. sleeping mode
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 1/00055 for alerting the user
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 1/041 Capsule endoscopes for imaging
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2560/0475 Special features of memory means, e.g. removable memory cards
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/073 Intestinal transmitters

Abstract

A receiving apparatus that can prevent beforehand that a portable recording medium is erroneously ejected during examination, and can prevent body cavity image data from being lost and the portable recording medium from being damaged is provided. When an ejection operation of the portable recording medium is detected (step S103: Yes) during a recording operation (step S101: Yes), a warning unit is operated before the portable recording medium is ejected to give a warning to a user so as not to perform the ejection operation (step S105). Accordingly, the portable recording medium can be prevented beforehand from being ejected during the recording operation, thereby preventing body cavity image data from being lost and the portable recording medium from being damaged.

Claims

1. A receiving apparatus that receives a radio signal transmitted from a body-insertable apparatus introduced into a subject, and records the radio signal on a portable recording medium detachably attached thereto, the receiving apparatus comprising:

an in-operation detector that detects that a recording operation is in progress;

an ejection operation detector that detects an ejection operation of the portable recording medium;

a warning unit that gives a warning to a user; and

a control unit that operates the warning unit before the portable recording medium is ejected, when the ejection operation of the portable recording medium is detected during the recording operation.

2. The receiving apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the portable recording medium is detachably attached by a plurality of operations or actions, and

the ejection operation detector detects the ejection operation of the portable recording medium, at the time of starting the first one of the plurality of operations or actions.

3. The receiving apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the warning unit generates a warning by a warning display on a display unit.

4. The receiving apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the warning unit generates a warning by lighting-on or blinking of a light emission element.

5. The receiving apparatus according to claim 4, wherein the light emission element is provided near an ejector of the portable recording medium.

6. The receiving apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the warning unit generates a warning by a warning sound.