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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 12, 2017
Filed:
Apr. 08, 2013
Applicant:
Olympus Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Inventors:
Assignee:
OLYMPUS CORPORATION, Tokyo, JP;
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 1/00 (2006.01); A61B 1/04 (2006.01); A61B 5/07 (2006.01); A61B 5/053 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 1/00006 (2013.01); A61B 1/00016 (2013.01); A61B 1/00036 (2013.01); A61B 1/041 (2013.01); A61B 5/073 (2013.01); A61B 5/0538 (2013.01); A61B 2560/0204 (2013.01); A61B 2560/0266 (2013.01);
Abstract
A capsule endoscope includes, inside a capsule casing, an information acquiring section that acquires information on an inside of a body of a subject, a battery that supplies power, a detection section that, upon detection of introduction to the inside of the body of the subject, outputs a detection signal, a signal receiving section that receives a control signal from an outside and outputs an internal signal, and a control section that controls power supply from the battery to the information acquiring section according to the internal signal and the detection signal.