Patent ID: 8622892

Claim:
An in-vivo image acquiring apparatus, introduced inside a subject, for capturing an inside of the subject, and outputting acquired image information to an outside, the in-vivo image acquiring apparatus comprising: an imaging unit that captures the inside of the subject; a transmission processing unit that performs a process that wirelessly transmits the image information captured by the imaging unit; a power supplying unit; a switching unit that detects an external input instructing start or stop of supply of driving power and switches a supply state of the driving power supplied by the power supplying unit based on the external input; a mode setting unit that sets an operation mode of the in-vivo image acquiring apparatus to one of a plurality of operation modes of the in-vivo image acquiring apparatus based on how many times the external input has been input to the switching unit; and a control unit that controls an operation of the imaging unit, the transmission processing unit, the power supplying unit, the switching unit and the mode setting unit of the in-vivo image acquiring apparatus according to the operation mode set by the mode setting unit, wherein the power supplying unit supplies the driving power for the imaging unit, the transmission processing unit, the control unit, the switching unit and the mode setting unit of the in-vivo image acquiring apparatus.