Patent ID: 8355043

Claim:
A medical apparatus comprising: a first image pickup section that is fixed to a body wall and picks up an image of an inside of a body cavity; a recording section that records in advance, in preparation for a case in which a predetermined image change occurs in a first image picked up by the first image pickup section, a predetermined image area in the first image or a coordinate for specifying the predetermined image area; and a display section that displays, when the predetermined image change occurs in the first image, the image area or the coordinate recorded in the recording section to be superimposed on the first image picked up by the first image pickup section, wherein the first image pickup section is an image pickup section that picks up an image of the inside of the body cavity at a wide angle, the medical apparatus further comprises a second image pickup section that picks up an image of the inside of the body cavity at an angle narrower than the angle of the first image pickup section and an information acquiring section configured to acquire predetermined image pickup position information and image pickup direction information in the second image pickup section, and in recording a picked-up image picked up by the second image pickup section and the image pickup position information and the image pickup direction information in advance in preparation for the case in which the predetermined image change occurs in the first image, the recording section records the picked up image by the second image pickup section, the image pickup position information, and the image pickup direction information in association with the image area or the coordinate in a state which the image area or the coordinate is set in an image position whose image is picked up by the second image pickup section.