Patent ID: 8380278

Claim:
An image capturing apparatus, comprising: an irradiating section that emits a light to a subject; a variable spectroscopic element capable of varying a wavelength of a light from the subject to be transmitted; a wavelength band table recording therein wavelength bands corresponded with disease conditions; an observation target identifying section that identifies a disease condition to be observed; a variable spectroscopic element control section that controls the variable spectroscopic element to sequentially transmit light rays of a plurality of wavelengths including all wavelength bands corresponding to a plurality of disease conditions recorded in the wavelength band table; an image capturing section that sequentially captures images by the light rays of the plurality of wavelengths transmitted through the variable spectroscopic element; and a multi-band image generating section that uses respective wavelength images captured by the image capturing section to generate a multi-band image, wherein the observation target identifying section analyzes the multi-band image to identify the disease condition to be observed.