Abstract: A communication apparatus, that can concurrently execute a first mode of joining a wireless network formed by another apparatus and a second mode of forming a wireless network, can determine whether a first wireless channel used in the first mode executed by the communication apparatus is a specific channel requiring a device to have a predetermined function to avoid radio-wave interference when the device operates as an apparatus that forms a wireless network using the wireless channel and controls, when executing the first mode and the second mode concurrently, an operation of the second mode in accordance with a result of the determination.

Abstract: The invention is provided with: a camera support tube (13) one end part of which is introduced into a body; a camera unit (11) which is joined to the camera support tube inside the body; a support tube joining portion (14) which joins the camera unit and the camera support tube; a camera-side cable (12) which is connected to the camera unit and led out to an outside of the body through the camera support tube; and a control system that is provided outside the body is connected to the camera-side cable, and includes at least a display (18).

Abstract: A bending device with which bending motions can be controlled with ease and good controllability includes a plurality of elastic tubes disposed inside an elastic tube. The elastic tubes each include an elastic tube body and a non-stretching body. The portion of the elastic tube body opposite the portion in which the non-stretching body is fixed inflates in a circumferential direction of the elastic tube body in response to increase in its internal pressure, causing the elastic tube to bend. The portion of the elastic tube body in which the non-stretching body is fixed is thicker than the remaining portion of the elastic tube body.

Abstract: An intracorporeal-monitoring camera system provided with a support tube whose one end is introduced in a body, an imaging portion that is joined to the support tube in the body, a joining portion that joins the imaging portion and the support tube together, a cable that is connected with the imaging portion and drawn out to an outside of the body through the support tube, and a control system that is provided on the outside of the body, connected with the cable, and includes at least a display device. A slit is formed in the support tube so that the cable is placed in the support tube from a side of the support tube.

Abstract: There are a first search for searching for another communication device by designating a wireless network, and a second search for searching for another communication device without designation of a wireless network. It is controlled to perform the second search together with the first search in accordance with one search instruction from a user. The result of the first search and the result of the second search are displayed to be able to discriminate them.

Abstract: A communication apparatus searches for other communication apparatuses each of which can execute, as a proxy of the communication apparatus, at least one of transmission processing and reception processing of a wireless signal during a period of a predetermined length which comes at a predetermined time interval, and selects, from the other communication apparatuses detected by the search, an apparatus for executing the processing as the proxy of the communication apparatus.

Abstract: An in-vivo monitoring camera system that includes: a camera support tube (13) of which one end part is introduced into a body; a camera unit (11) which joins with the camera support tube in the body; a joining portion which joins the camera unit and the support tube to each other; a camera side cable (12) which is connected to the camera unit, and is drawn out toward the outside of the body through the camera support tube; a control system which is on the outside of the body, is connected to the camera side cable, and includes at least a display apparatus; and a cooling system (77) which cools the camera support tube to which heat of the imaging unit is transferred.

Abstract: A communications apparatus is provided that determines a timing of starting a period when a communications group, to which other communications apparatuses belong, can perform communications, based on a beacon signal that was received in a predetermined period; transmits a signal that requests obtaining of information to the other communications apparatuses, according to the determined timing; and obtains information from each of the other communications apparatuses. The communications apparatus transmits the signal according to the timing determined based on a beacon from an apparatus belonging to a first communications group to other communications apparatuses that belong to the first communications group, and the signal according to the timing determined based on a beacon from an apparatus belonging to a second communications group to other communications apparatuses that belong to the second communications group.

Abstract: A communication apparatus includes one or more computers that cause the communication apparatus to: accept a first instruction at the communication apparatus from a user, perform, in response to accepting the first instruction, a first search process for searching, over a plurality of channels, a first other communication apparatus by a first method complying with a communication standard other than a Wi-Fi Alliance Neighbor Awareness Networking standard, and a second search process, which is performed after the first search process, for searching a wireless network and a second other communication apparatus which is in the wireless network, by a second method. Each of the wireless network, the second other communication apparatus, and the second method is compliant with the Wi-Fi Alliance Neighbor Awareness Networking standard, and performs, after performing the second search process, the first search process without further accepting an instruction from the user.

Abstract: An in-body image capturing device (camera unit) with high reliability is suggested. A camera unit (11) includes an image capturing unit that includes a lens (26) and a first illumination unit (27a) and is capable of being introduced into a body. The first illumination unit (27a) and the image capturing unit are housed in a casing (22) that is integrally molded with an integral light-transmitting body (22x) and an integral light shielding body (22y).

Abstract: Upon receiving, from a first other communication apparatus, a first acquisition request of requesting apparatus information relating to another communication apparatus that exists in a cluster, a communication apparatus transmits a second acquisition request that corresponds to the first acquisition request to a second other communication apparatus that exists in a cluster, determines a waiting time for awaiting a response to the second acquisition request from the second other communication apparatus, receives the apparatus information from the second other communication apparatus during the waiting time, and transmits the apparatus information received during the waiting time collectively to the first other communication apparatus.

Abstract: An in-vivo monitoring camera system that includes: a camera support tube (13) of which one end part is introduced into a body; a camera unit (11) which joins with the camera support tube in the body; a joining portion which joins the camera unit and the support tube to each other; a camera side cable (12) which is connected to the camera unit, and is drawn out toward the outside of the body through the camera support tube; a control system which is on the outside of the body, is connected to the camera side cable, and includes at least a display apparatus; and a cooling system (77) which cools the camera support tube to which heat of the imaging unit is transferred.

Abstract: A camera system for monitoring an inside of a body, which reduces an influence of a high-frequency noise, and has high reliability and ease of use is realized. The camera system for monitoring an inside of a body includes a camera support tube (13) formed of a conductive material, a metal spring (191) causing the camera support tube (13) to be grounded, a support-tube joining unit (14) joining the camera unit (11) and the camera support tube (13), and a control system (3) including a display (18).

Abstract: A camera system (1) for monitoring the inside of a body (1), includes: a camera support tube (13) of which one end part (13a) is inserted into the body; a camera unit (11) which joins with the support tube inside the body; a camera side cable (12) which is connected to the camera unit, and is drawn out toward the outside of the body through the camera support tube; a control system (3) which includes at least a display (18); and a string-like member (38) which directly or indirectly fixes the camera support tube to the body surface.

Abstract: A communication apparatus notifies that service information is to be communicated outside a cyclically repeated period in which a plurality of apparatuses including the communication apparatus transmits or receives a beacon to another communication apparatus included in the plurality of apparatuses and being a destination of the service information.

Abstract: A communication apparatus has a communication function capable of transmitting/receiving a wireless signal to/from another communication apparatus during a period of a predetermined length which comes at a predetermined time interval, and can execute at least one of transmission processing and reception processing of the wireless signal during the period as a proxy of another apparatus. In accordance with whether to execute the processing as the proxy, the communication apparatus sets a frequency at which the communication apparatus enters in a state in which the wireless signal can be transmitted/received during the periods.

Abstract: A communication apparatus includes a first search unit that searches, in one channel, for another communication apparatus by a first method complying with Wi-Fi Alliance Neighbor Awareness Networking, and a second search unit that searches, over a plurality of channels, for another communication apparatus by a second method different from the first method. The communication apparatus accepts a search instruction of the other communication apparatus and controls, in response to accepting the one instruction, the first search unit and the second search unit so as to execute a search by the first method and a search by the second method.

Abstract: A communication apparatus communicates service information with another communication apparatus during a predetermined period which repeatedly starts in a predetermined cycle and during which a plurality of apparatuses including the communication apparatus transmit or receive a beacon, communicates, with the other communication apparatus during the predetermined period, address information to be used for communication for executing a service indicated by the service information, and communicates, using the address information, with the other communication apparatus for executing the service indicated by the service information at a timing based on the predetermined cycle.

Abstract: A communication device joins a wireless network and performs direct communication with another communication device that has joined the wireless network. The communication device performs, while performing direct communication with a first other communication device, determination of at least one of whether the communication device is performing direct communication with a second other communication device that is different from the first other communication device or whether the first other communication device is performing direct communication with a third other communication device. The communication device restricts switching of a channel for the direct communication with the first other communication device if the communication device is performing direct communication with the second other communication device or if the first other communication device is performing direct communication with the third other communication device.

Abstract: An electric stimulator that effectively improves the brain function of patients suffering from brain disorders by applying electric stimulation to the brain of the patient effectively. The electric stimulator can include main electrodes H to be stuck to particular sites of the patient's body extending from the neck part to the head tip part. The particular site may be the temple part, the forehead part above the eyes, the cheek part and the rear neck part. The electric signal to be applied to the main electrodes H is set so as for weak electric current of 100 ?A or less to flow through the patient's body and stimulate the brain. In addition to the application of electric stimulation by the main electrodes H, auxiliary electrodes S may be stuck to the back of the patient.