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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 09, 2010
Filed:
Nov. 29, 2006
Takaaki Okamoto, Fujisawa, JP;
Takaaki Okamoto, Fujisawa, JP;
Nikon Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
Providing an intermittent photo-taking device capable of correcting a focus drift in the optical axis direction by moving a stage to focus on a plurality focus position of a sample. The intermittent recording devicereceives setting of a photo-taking timing for the intermittent recording, sets to a driving systema plurality of focus points to take photographs of the sample in each photo-taking timing as relative positions with respect to a predetermined reference position, at each photo-taking timing, obtains a focus position as a reference position by the autofocus movement, varies the relative position between the microscopeand the stageto focus on the set photo-taking position of the sample S on the basis of the obtained reference position and the relative positions, makes the photo-taking devicetake photograph of the sample in each focus position, and captures the taken images.