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In-vivo information acquiring system and body-insertable apparatus

  • US 8,574,151 B2
  • Filed: 12/03/2008
  • Issued: 11/05/2013
  • Est. Priority Date: 12/05/2007
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A body-insertable apparatus comprising:

  • an imaging unit that captures an in-vivo image of a subject;

    a signal processing unit that includes a memory in which the in-vivo image is temporarily stored, writes the in-vivo image in the memory, the signal processing unit reading the in-vivo image from the memory on a pixel basis and converting the in-vivo image to serial information to transfer the serial information;

    a rate converter that converts a transfer processing rate to a rate higher than a writing processing rate, the transfer processing rate being at which the signal processing unit reads the in-vivo image from the memory and converts the in-vivo image to the serial information to transfer the serial information, the writing processing rate being at which the signal processing unit writes the in-vivo image in the memory; and

    a transmitting unit that wirelessly transmits the serial information transferred from the signal processing unit at a transmission rate corresponding to the transfer processing rate.

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