| 摘要 |
A guidance device 20 is provided with the following: a magnetic field generation unit 25 that generates a magnetic field MG for guiding a capsule endoscope 10; an operation input unit 24 for inputting guidance instruction information that causes the location or the posture of the capsule endoscope 10 to change in accordance with operations made from the outside; a guidance control unit 261 that controls the operation of the magnetic field generation unit 25 on the basis of the guidance instruction information; a frame-rate calculation unit 262 that, on the basis of the guidance instruction information, calculates an image pickup frame-rate for the capsule endoscope 10; and a transmission unit 28 that sends to the capsule endoscope 10 an instruction signal for causing the image pickup frame-rate of the capsule endoscope 10 to be set to the image pickup frame-rate calculated by the frame-rate calculation unit 262. Due to this configuration, provided is the guidance device 20 that can change the image pickup frame-rate of the capsule endoscope 10 at an appropriate timing. |
