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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 29, 2007
Filed:
Aug. 31, 2004
Hideyuki Kawanabe, Tokyo, JP;
Katsuyoshi Yamaguchi, Tokyo, JP;
Mitsuhiko Saito, Tokyo, JP;
Junzo Sakurai, Tokyo, JP;
Hideyuki Kawanabe, Tokyo, JP;
Katsuyoshi Yamaguchi, Tokyo, JP;
Mitsuhiko Saito, Tokyo, JP;
Junzo Sakurai, Tokyo, JP;
Olympus Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An optical microscope apparatus selectively arranges a plurality of optical elements in an optical path, and includes: a manual switch unit capable of manually switching any of the plurality of optical elements; a detection unit detecting an arrangement status of manually switched optical elements; a storage unit storing information relating to the arrangement of the plurality of optical elements for each observing method; and an arrangement control unit arranging the plurality of optical elements according to the detection result by the detection unit and the information stored in the storage unit.