Patent ID: 8169472

Claim:
An image display apparatus comprising: a database that stores patient information including plural pieces of information of a subject; a display unit that displays a group of intra-subject images of the subject captured by a capsule endoscope and patient information; an input unit that inputs at least a part of information included in patient information of a desired subject; a control unit that searches the patient information of plural subjects stored in the database for the patient information of the desired subject based on the at least a part of information input by the input unit, to display the searched patient information on the display unit; and a communication unit that transmits the patient information searched by the control unit to an external receiving device that receives a group of intra-subject images from the capsule endoscope in the desired subject; wherein the input unit inputs confirmation completion information indicating that the patient information searched by the control unit is confirmed, and the control unit determines that confirmation of the patient information is completed based on the confirmation completion information, and controls the communication unit to transmit the patient information whose confirmation is completed to the external receiving device.