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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 08, 2007
Filed:
Jun. 17, 2003
Shuji Nakagawa, Tokyo, JP;
Shuji Nakagawa, Tokyo, JP;
Olympus Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
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.