Patent ID: 7920732

Claim:
A capsule endoscope system comprising: a capsule endoscope, swallowable in a body, for forming an image in said body; a receiver, positioned on said body, for wirelessly receiving said image from said capsule endoscope, to store said image; an information manager for filing said image from said receiver, managing said image, and controlling display of said image; a first wireless interface, positioned on said receiver, for wirelessly transmitting said image during imaging with said capsule endoscope; a second wireless interface, positioned on said information manager, for wirelessly receiving said image from said first wireless interface; an image selector for selecting said image for image filing in said information manager among plural images received by said receiver; wherein said first wireless interface transmits said selected image to said information manager; wherein said image selector is positioned on at least one of said receiver and said information manager; and further comprising a memory, provided in one of said receiver and said information manager provided with said image selector, for storing a sample image feature value of a sample image; said image selector extracts an image feature value from said image obtained by said capsule endoscope, and determines similarity degree between said image and said sample image by comparing said image feature value with said sample image feature value, wherein if said similarity degree is equal to or more than a predetermined threshold value, said image is selected as detected to correspond to said sample image, wherein said memory stores said sample image feature value in association with lesion type information of a type of a lesion; further comprising an input interface for inputting said lesion type information; said image selector reads said sample image feature value for comparison according to said input lesion type information.