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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 31, 2006
Filed:
Apr. 06, 2001
Nicholas James Salmon, Romerberg, DE;
Ernst Hans Karl Stelzer, Meckesheim, DE;
Nicholas James Salmon, Romerberg, DE;
Ernst Hans Karl Stelzer, Meckesheim, DE;
European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Heidelberg, DE;
Abstract
A computer controlled microscope is provided with improved usability, which allows a user to quickly build, modify and reuse complex sample illumination and/or observation processes by introducing a recordings hierarchy in which a recording can be both a parent recording of one or more child recordings and a child recording to a single parent recording. A recordings hierarchy allows control parameter data to be inherited from a parent recording to a child recording. The group of child recordings linked to a parent recording is called a recordings collection. Viewed together, recordings and recordings collections form a tree-like hierarchy. Single load and store functions associated with a recording permit the entire recording and child recordings hierarchy to be stored on a storage device and reloaded into the computer of a computer controlled microscope.