Patent ID: 8480564

Claim:
A capsule type medical system comprising: an external device that is provided outside a subject and can use a conductor existing in the subject as a transmission medium to transmit an external signal to an inside of the subject; and a capsule type medical apparatus that can receive the external signal while moving in the subject, wherein the capsule type medical apparatus includes: a cover member that is formed of a dielectric and covers components of the capsule type medical apparatus; a plurality of electrodes that are formed of conductors, are provided in tight contact with an inner wall side surface of the cover member, and receive the external signal; an inductor circuit that is connected in series to each of the plurality of electrodes, and has an inductance value set to configure a resonant circuit having a frequency substantially equal to a carrier frequency of the external signal as a resonant frequency; a signal receiving circuit to which the external signal received by the plurality of electrodes and a potential difference of the external signal are input, and which is configured to generate receiving level data according to a receiving level of the external signal, based on the inputted potential difference; an image pickup portion that picks up an image of an inside of the subject and outputs an image pickup signal; and a signal transmitting portion that transmits the image pickup signal outputted from the image pickup portion and the receiving level data generated by the signal receiving circuit to an outside of the capsule type medical apparatus according to control based on the external signal, wherein the external device includes: a position detecting section configured to roughly detect a position of the capsule type medical apparatus in the subject based on a signal level of the image pickup signal received from the signal transmitting portion; and a control section configured to generate position information by performing an analysis based on an image obtained by performing signal processing on the image pickup signal sent from the signal transmitting portion and the position of the capsule type medical apparatus roughly detected by the position detecting section, and further configured to perform control to store the generated position information to be associated with the image.