Patent ID: 6902529

Claim:
An image pickup apparatus mounted to a medical observation device having an optical system for observing a living body comprising: a television camera having an image pickup element built therein for picking up an image of a portion to be observed by the medical observation device; a wireless transmitter associated with the television camera for transmitting an image information signal of the image by wireless; an information display portion provided in the medical observation device to display frequency information of a transmission frequency of the wireless transmitter; an information reading device for reading the frequency information of the information display portion; a wireless receiver for receiving the image information signal transmitted from the wireless transmitter; a reception frequency setting unit for tuning a reception frequency of the wireless receiver to the transmission frequency of the image information signal transmitted from the wireless transmitter by using the frequency information read by the information reading device; and a video processing circuit for processing the image information signal received by the wireless receiver to provide an output signal for display.