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Date of Patent:
May. 12, 2020

Filed:

May. 31, 2019
Applicant:

Olympus Corporation, Tokyo, JP;

Inventor:

Shodai Hosono, Tokyo, JP;

Assignee:

OLYMPUS CORPORATION, Tokyo, JP;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G02B 21/36 (2006.01); G02B 21/06 (2006.01); G02B 21/26 (2006.01); G02B 21/02 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G02B 21/365 (2013.01); G02B 21/06 (2013.01); G02B 21/368 (2013.01); G02B 21/02 (2013.01); G02B 21/26 (2013.01);
Abstract

A magnified observation apparatus includes: an observation unit including a light source and an imaging unit; a light quantity parameter table recording unit configured to store plural light quantity parameter tables therein, each of the plural light quantity parameter tables including: a minimum value and a maximum value of light quantity of illumination light; and a unit manipulation amount obtained by division of an interval between the minimum value and the maximum value by a predetermined division number, maximum values in the plural light quantity parameter tables being different from one another; a light quantity parameter selecting unit configured to select one light quantity parameter table from the plural light quantity parameter tables; and a light source control unit configured to increase or decreases light quantity of the illumination light, correspondingly to magnitude of the unit manipulation amount in the selected light quantity parameter table.


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