Patent ID: 8366608

Claim:
An in-vivo information acquiring system comprising: a body-insertable apparatus configured to be introduced into a subject, and to transmit a wireless signal containing an in-vivo image to the outside of the subject; and a receiving apparatus configured to receive the wireless signal transmitted from the body-insertable apparatus, wherein the body-insertable apparatus is comprised of: an imaging unit configured to capture in-vivo images; a control unit configured to select an in-vivo image to be added with unique information among the in-vivo images captured by the imaging unit; and a transmitting unit configured to additionally arrange an identification signal added to scanning line information about the in-vivo image selected by the control unit, to add unique information relating to the identification signal after the identification signal, and to transmit the in-vivo image added with the unique information, wherein when the in-vivo image contained in the wireless signal is not added with unique information, the receiving apparatus adds, to the in-vivo image, unique information added to an in-vivo image most recently received by the receiving apparatus among in-vivo images attached with unique information and previously received by the receiving apparatus, and stores the in-vivo image added with the unique information.