Olympus Corporation

Olympus Optical Company, Ltd.

Shuji Nakagawa

Akihiro Kitahara

Akira Watanabe

Tatsuki Yamada

Kiyoshi Yuri

Asao Uenodai

The microscopic image capture apparatus includes: a slide glass transfer unittransfers a slide glassfrom a first slide glass storage unitto a space under a microscope objective lensa wide field-of-view image capture unitcaptures the entire image of wide field-of-view of the slide glassin synchronization with the transfer of the slide glassby the slide glass transfer unita microscopic image capture unitcaptures a microscopic image of the sample S on the slide glasswhose entire image of wide field-of-view has been captured by the wide field-of-view image capture unitand a slide glass storage unitstores the slide glasswhose sample S has been captured by the microscopic image capture unitfrom the observation position of the microscopeinto the second slide glass tray unit

Microscopic image capture apparatus

A microscopic image capturing apparatus and method are provided. First, the entire area of a slide glass on a stage is divided into field size sections (low-magnification sections) of a low-powered objective lens. The stage is transferred perpendicular to an optical axis, and image information is sequentially obtained for each low-magnification section. Each low-magnification section is divided into high-magnification size sections (high-magnification sections), and a high-magnification image is captured using a high-powered objective lens only in high-magnification sections corresponding to a sample. A high-magnification image is generated by correctly maintaining the relative position between the obtained image information and an area corresponding to high-magnification sections which are not captured, and high-magnification composite image information of the sample is generated.

Microscopic image capture apparatus and microscopic image capturing method

A CPU determines an optical-axis direction moving interval of a focal point of a microscope based on a wavelength of light used for sample observation by the microscope and a numerical aperture of an object lens mounted on the microscope, and controls the microscope so as to sequentially move a position of the focal point of the microscope with respect to a sample position in the optical-axis direction at determined moving intervals. Every time the control moves the position, with respect to the sample position, of the focal point at the moving interval, the microscope is so controlled as to sequentially obtain a microscopic image produced when the position of the focal point is at a position after the moving.

System and method for controlling microscope

A microscope includes a light source, an objective lens for converging light emitted from the light source onto a sample, and an optical detector for detecting either light from the sample via a confocal point diaphragm or light from the sample which does not pass through the confocal point diaphragm. A range of a focusing point is detected in accordance with the light which does not pass through the confocal diaphragm, and the focusing point is then detected in accordance with the light detected via the confocal point diaphragm in the detected range of the focusing point.

Microscope having a confocal point and a non-confocal point, and a

A revolver control device of this invention includes a revolver rotatably formed and having a plurality of mounting holes which contain a specified mounting hole corresponding to a specified objective and in which a plurality of objectives containing the specified objective are respectively mounted, recognition circuit for recognizing at least one of one of the plurality of objectives and one of the plurality of mounting holes which lies on an observation optical axis, driving circuit for giving the rotation driving force to the revolver to move one of the plurality of objectives onto the observation optical axis, and control circuit for controlling the driving circuit to prevent the specified objective mounted on the revolver or the specified mounting hole from being passed through the observation optical axis by rotation of the revolver when at least one of the objective and mounting hole recognized by the recognition circuit is replaced by at least one of the plurality of objectives and mounting holes which is used as one of a target objective and a target hole.

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Tokyo, Japan

Shuji Nakagawa