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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 25, 2006
Filed:
Aug. 16, 2004
Ryo Nakagaki, Kawasaki, JP;
Yuji Takagi, Kamakura, JP;
Hirohito Okuda, Yokohama, JP;
Hiroshi Kakibayashi, Nagareyama, JP;
Ryo Nakagaki, Kawasaki, JP;
Yuji Takagi, Kamakura, JP;
Hirohito Okuda, Yokohama, JP;
Hiroshi Kakibayashi, Nagareyama, JP;
Hitachi High-Technologies Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
It is possible to reliably and efficiently determine whether a specimen contains viruses, bacteria, etc. and, if it does, identify their types, regardless of the observer. Furthermore, even a newly-discovered bacterium can be quickly identified by utilizing a database at a remote location. A transmission microscope system has a microscope for observing a specimen and a database which stores, for each microscopic thing (such as a virus), a name, a specimen pretreatment method and an imaging condition used when the microscopic thing is observed, captured image data, etc. An image of the specimen is captured according to a specimen pretreatment method and an imaging condition retrieved from the database using the name of a target microscopic thing as a key, and the captured image is compared with images stored in the database to identify microscopic things present in the specimen.