Patent ID: 8803961

Claim:
A receiver system for receiving image data from a capsule camera, comprising: a plurality of receiving units each comprising: an antenna for receiving a signal transmitted wirelessly from the capsule camera; a receiver circuit coupled to the antenna that (a) processes the signal received in the antenna to recover data encoded therein; (b) generates information indicative of a parameter of the received signal and (c) outputs a digital signal comprising digital data encoding the recovered data and the parameter of the received signal; and an interface receiving the digital data from the receiver circuit for connecting to a processing circuit that recovers the image data from the digital data, wherein the receiving unit operates in an active mode and an inactive mode, the receiving unit being put into the active mode according to a network signal condition detected at a second receiving unit in the active mode within a predetermined distance of the receiving unit, and the parameter of the received signal being indicative of the network signal condition at the time the signal is received into the receiving unit; and wherein the processing circuit couples to the interfaces of the receiving units to receive from each coupled interface the digital data output from the receiver circuit associated with the coupled interface.