Patent ID: 7354397

Claim:
A capsule-type medical apparatus comprising a capsule body, inserted in a living body and performing medical procedures such as observation, and an external apparatus disposed outside the living body, and further comprising: an image-capturing portion for capturing an image of a subject to output an image-capturing signal, the image-capturing portion being provided to the capsule body; capsule sending means, established in the capsule body, for sending to the external apparatus a first identifier stored in the capsule body for identifying the capsule body; external apparatus receiving means, established in the external apparatus, for receiving the first identifier; external apparatus sending means, established in the external apparatus, for sending to the capsule body a second identifier related to the first identifier and having a smaller number of bits than the first identifier; first storing means, established in the external apparatus, for storing information of the second identifier sent by the external apparatus sending means; capsule receiving means, established in the capsule body, for receiving the second identifier sent from the external apparatus sending means; second storing means, established in the capsule body, for storing the information of the second identifier sent from the external apparatus sending; means and a processing circuit for generating a signal having the second identifier added to the image-capturing signal and sending the image-capturing signal with the second identifier added thereto generated by the processing circuit to the external apparatus receiving means via the capsule sending means.