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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Feb. 20, 2024

Filed:

Feb. 18, 2021
Applicant:

Nikon Corporation, Tokyo, JP;

Inventors:

Ichiro Sase, Yokohama, JP;

Yasutoshi Kaneko, Yokohama, JP;

Tatsuo Fukui, Tokyo, JP;

Assignee:

NIKON CORPORATION, Tokyo, JP;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G02B 21/36 (2006.01); G02B 21/16 (2006.01); G01N 21/64 (2006.01); H04N 23/00 (2023.01); G02B 21/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G01N 21/6458 (2013.01); G01N 21/64 (2013.01); G02B 21/0076 (2013.01); G02B 21/16 (2013.01); G02B 21/365 (2013.01); G02B 21/367 (2013.01); H04N 23/00 (2023.01); G01N 2201/06113 (2013.01);
Abstract

A microscope apparatus including: an illumination optical system that radiates activation light to activate some of fluorescent materials included in a sample and excitation light to excite at least some of the activated fluorescent materials; an image forming optical system that: has an objective lens and an astigmatic optical system that generates astigmatism to at least part of fluorescence from the fluorescent materials; and forms an image of the fluorescence; an image-capturing unit that captures an image formed by the image forming optical system; a drive unit that moves an image-capturing position in the sample along an optical axis-direction of the objective lens; and a control unit, wherein the control unit causes the image-capturing unit to capture images in a plurality of numbers of frames respectively at a first image-capturing position and at a second image-capturing position different from the first image-capturing position.


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