Abstract: A solid-state imaging device comprises a solid-state imaging element including a photo-reception portion and electrode pads, and optical glass bonded onto the solid-state imaging element through a bonding layer, wherein penetrating electrodes which reach the rear face of the solid-state imaging element are formed below the electrode pads of the solid-state imaging element.

Abstract: A receiving apparatus is for receiving radio signals including image information transmitted by a mobile transmitting device through a plurality of receiving antennas. The receiving apparatus includes a plurality of frequency converters for outputting modulated signals obtained by converting respective radio signal received through the plurality of receiving antennas by different modulation frequencies; a superposing unit for superposing each of the modulated signals generated by the plurality of frequency converters on a frequency axis; a cable with a single coaxial cable where each of the modulated signals superposed by the superposing unit is transmitted; and a receiving unit for demodulating each modulated signal input through the cable to receive and output the image information.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to readily initiate an operation of a capsule medical apparatus which is inserted into a subject and executes a predetermined function. In a capsule endoscope 3 according to the present invention, a reed switch 14 connected to a power supply unit and a function executing unit is arranged parallel to a direction of a longitudinal axis t of a capsule-like casing 16 in the substantially cylindrical capsule-like casing 16 of the capsule endoscope 3. A pair of movable electrodes of the reed switch 14 operates according to magnetic induction of a magnetic field of a magnet 6 applied substantially parallel to the direction t of the longitudinal axis of the capsule-like casing 16, and come into contact with each other. As a result, power supply from the power supply unit to the function executing unit is allowed.

Abstract: In the image pickup unit according to the present invention, of a lens group, a leg section of a lens at a tail end located closest to an image sensor in an optical axis direction is adhered to the image sensor using a UV adhesive and a light-receiving section of the image sensor is thereby sealed between the lens at the tail end and the light-receiving section via an enclosed space.

Abstract: An imaging apparatus includes a solid-state imaging sensor. The sensor includes a semiconductor chip receiving light from an object through a light receiving surface and performing photoelectric conversion of the received light; a translucent member provided on an upper surface of the chip to protect the chip; and plural electrode terminals provided on a lower surface of the chip. The apparatus also includes an optical system which is provided on a light receiving region, which is on a surface of the translucent member and is arranged at a position facing with the light receiving surface to focus the light from the object on the light receiving surface; and a resin material which reinforces a bonding strength between a circuit board on which the sensor is mounted and the electrode terminals of the sensor, and shields a region outside the light receiving region of the translucent member from light.

Abstract: An capsule-type medical apparatus includes a sealed container; and a wiring board which is housed in the sealed container and on which a functional circuit performing a predetermined function while the capsule-type medical apparatus is inserted into a subject is mounted. The wiring board includes a plurality of comparatively rigid wiring board sections on which parts constituting the functional circuit are mounted, and a comparatively flexible wiring board section that connects the plurality of the rigid wiring board sections. The flexible wiring board is extended from a straight-line portion formed on the rigid wiring board sections, and the flexible wiring board section is folded so that the adjacent rigid wiring board sections oppose to each other.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to readily initiate an operation of a capsule medical apparatus which is inserted into a subject and executes a predetermined function. In a capsule endoscope 3 according to the present invention, a reed switch 14 connected to a power supply unit and a function executing unit is arranged parallel to a direction of a longitudinal axis t of a capsule-like casing 16 in the substantially cylindrical capsule-like casing 16 of the capsule endoscope 3. A pair of movable electrodes of the reed switch 14 operates according to magnetic induction of a magnetic field of a magnet 6 applied substantially parallel to the direction t of the longitudinal axis of the capsule-like casing 16, and come into contact with each other. As a result, power supply from the power supply unit to the function executing unit is allowed.

Abstract: A solid-state image pickup apparatus includes a solid-state image pickup device, a microlens member laminated on the solid-state image pickup device, and a flat plate-like cover glass attached onto a region excluding a pixel region on the microlens member as viewed in a planar manner from above the microlens member to seal the pixel region of the solid-state image pickup device.

Abstract: A manufacturing method for an optical unit includes: a step of bonding plural lens wafers, on which optical components are formed, and forming a lens unit wafer including plural lens units; a step of bonding a bending optical element wafer including plural bending optical elements to a first surface of the lens unit wafer such that the plural bending optical elements are respectively opposed to the plural lens units and forming an optical unit wafer; and a step of separating and individualizing the optical unit wafer for each of the lens units and the bending optical elements and manufacturing plural optical units.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to readily initiate an operation of a capsule medical apparatus which is inserted into a subject and executes a predetermined function. In a capsule endoscope 3 according to the present invention, a reed switch 14 connected to a power supply unit and a function executing unit is arranged parallel to a direction of a longitudinal axis t of a capsule-like casing 16 in the substantially cylindrical capsule-like casing 16 of the capsule endoscope 3. A pair of movable electrodes of the reed switch 14 operates according to magnetic induction of a magnetic field of a magnet 6 applied substantially parallel to the direction t of the longitudinal axis of the capsule-like casing 16, and come into contact with each other. As a result, power supply from the power supply unit to the function executing unit is allowed.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing a capsule medical device includes mounting one or more functional components on each of a first circuit board group and a second circuit board group, which are separate bodies from each other; mounting a control unit that controls an operation of the one or more functional components, on a control board that is a separate body from the first circuit board group and the second circuit board group; and connecting the first circuit board group and the second circuit board group to the control board.

Abstract: A capsule medical device includes an optically transparent optical dome forming a part of a capsule casing introduced into a subject; an illuminating board having an illuminating unit that illuminates inside the subject over the optical dome fixedly arranged thereon; an optical unit that forms an image of inside the subject illuminated by the illuminating unit; an imaging unit that is fixedly arranged with respect to the optical unit and captures images of inside the subject; and a positioning unit in which the illuminating board and the optical unit are fixedly arranged, which is fitted and fixed to an inner circumference of the optical dome to determine relative positions of the illuminating board and the optical unit with respect to the optical dome.

Abstract: An endoscope apparatus includes a polygonal camera module integrally formed at a wafer level by aligning and bonding a light collecting surface side of a lens wafer formed by laminating a plurality of optical wafers on which a plurality of optical parts are formed, and a device surface side of a sensor wafer on which a plurality of solid-state image pickup devices are formed, and then separating the aligned and bonded lens wafer and sensor wafer into individual pieces, wherein an endoscope functional portion is located in a region from an edge end portion of the camera module to an outer peripheral end of an outer shape portion.

Abstract: A communication apparatus (3) arranged outside a subject (1) has an external device (32) which sequentially transmits control signals. A capsule endoscope (2) is introduced inside the subject (1). Thereafter, a system control circuit controls a driving of an intra-capsule function executing circuit so as to start driving at a previously set given time, by supplying driving power to the intra-capsule function executing circuit to control the driving thereof based on a result of detection by a control-signal detecting circuit which is provided in the capsule endoscope (2) and which detects a discontinuous state of input of the control signals. Thus, a collection and transmission of images inside the subject can be performed accurately.

Abstract: In a capsule casing 16 as an exterior case that includes end cover casings 16a and 16b and body cover casings 16a and 16b, planar portions 16f and 16g are formed at portions of a circumferential surface of the body cover casings 16c and 16d, and imaging units 14a and 14b are arranged inside the capsule casing 16 at positions at which imaging inside of body cavities of a subject is possible through the planar portions 16f and 16g, thereby preventing a lens effect, eliminating image failures to improve images, and enhancing image quality.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to make it possible to closely examine a specific region by making most use of an advantage of a compound-eye capsule endoscope that picks up images of an interior of a body cavity forward and backward in a movement direction of a capsule casing. By disposing imaging devices (12a)(12b) of respective imaging blocks in a capsule casing (16) while having a relationship between arrangement directions of the imaging devices (12a)(12b), e.g., making upward and downward directions U and D coincident with each other, a correspondence/positional relationship between the images picked up by the imaging devices (12a)(12b) is clear when the specific region such as an affected part in the body cavity is to be observed using the respective images forward and backward in the movement direction, thereby facilitating close examination on the specific region using the both images.

Abstract: A capsule endoscope has a solid image sensor introduced into a subject for picking up an image in the subject. The capsule endoscope includes a light-emitting unit for emitting illumination light for illuminating a view field of the solid image sensor; a lens frame for holding a lens to focus an image in the subject on a light-receiving surface of the solid image sensor, the lens frame having an upper end portion located at a position lower than an upper surface of the light-emitting unit; and a shield unit for shielding, from the illumination light, at least a partial area of the upper end portion of the lens frame which receives the illumination light.

Abstract: A capsule endoscope 2 includes a partial-image acquiring unit that has a field of vision of 360° around a central axis in a longitudinal direction (moving direction), and acquires a plurality of partial image data on inner circumferential areas 28a, 28b and the like according to a movement of the capsule endoscope 2. On the other hand, the capsule endoscope 2 is configured to acquire position related data based on which positions Z(t1) and Z(t2) at which the respective partial image data is acquired can be calculated, and enables a receiving apparatus or the like to constitute overall image data based on the partial image data and the position related data, whereby an overall image of a predetermined imaging target in a body of a subject is acquired with simple constitution while suppressing an increase in data amount.

Abstract: A surface treatment is carried out on a surface of an inner circumferential die 53 among dies for forming a distal end cover of a capsule endoscope by irradiating ion beams from an ion source 55 of an ion implanter so that fine and random irregularities are generated on the surface of the inner circumferential die 53 to the extent that the surface of the inner circumferential die 53 is slightly roughened. Next, by forming the distal end cover that is a molded product by injection molding while combining this inner circumferential die 53 with other dies, a molding performance for molding the distal end cover is improved without hampering an imaging performance of the capsule endoscope.

Abstract: An in-body information acquiring apparatus includes a function executing unit that realizes a predetermined function inside a body of a patient. A power-supply circuit includes a power unit that includes a cell and that outputs a first current and a first voltage; and a converter that converts the first current to a second current, which is a current required to operate the function executing unit for a predetermined time, and converts the first voltage to a second voltage, which is a voltage required to operate the function executing unit.