Patent ID: 7938771

Claim:
An endoscope image pick-up apparatus comprising: an image pick-up unit for insertion into the body; an extra-corporeal unit for receiving an image captured by the image pick-up unit by radio transmission, the extra-corporeal unit being arranged outside the body; an image pick-up device for picking up an image in the body, the image pick-up device being provided in the image pick-up unit; a storing device for storing the image picked up by the image pick-up device, the storing device being provided in the image pick-up unit; and a processing device for reading the image from the storing device and performing a predetermined processing, the processing device being provided in the image pick-up unit, wherein the storing device, when storing the image therein, operates at a high-speed clock same with that of an image pick-up operation by the image pick-up device, and when the processing device performs a predetermined processing to the image, operates at a low-speed clock same with that of the processing device.