Patent ID: 8279276

Claim:
A receiving apparatus comprising: a receiver that receives serial data transmitted from a body-insertable apparatus, the serial data including a payload portion that indicates actual content of the serial data and an additional portion that is added to the payload portion as a signal indicating a position to start processing and contains attribute information that varies according to each type of body-insertable apparatus; a signal processor that performs predetermined signal processing on the payload portion of the serial data; an identifying unit that identifies a type of the body-insertable apparatus based on the attribute information contained in the additional portion of the serial data; and a processing determining unit that selects a mode of signal processing performed on the received payload portion by the signal processor based on an identification result obtained by the identifying unit; wherein the additional portion includes a preamble field for a preamble signal and a synchronization signal field for a synchronization signal, and the identifying unit identifies the type of the body-insertable apparatus with reference to the synchronization signal field that contains the attribute information in a pattern that varies according to each type of body-insertable apparatus; and the receiving apparatus further comprising a plurality of synchronization detectors, each of which detects, in the synchronization signal field, a different pattern that varies according to each type of body-insertable apparatus, wherein the identifying unit identifies the type of the body-insertable apparatus based on which one of the synchronization detectors detects the synchronization signal filed.