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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 08, 2011
Filed:
Jun. 30, 2006
Masafumi Oshiro, Hamamatsu, JP;
Yoshinori Hashimoto, Hamamatsu, JP;
Masafumi Oshiro, Hamamatsu, JP;
Yoshinori Hashimoto, Hamamatsu, JP;
Hamamatsu Photonics K.K., Hamamatsu-shi, Shizuoka, JP;
Abstract
An image acquiring apparatus for acquiring images of a sample includes a macro image acquiring unitfor acquiring a macro image of the sample, a dark field light sourceto be used for acquiring a dark field macro image of the sample as a macro image, a macro image processing unitwhich generates a reference macro image by processing image data of the macro image, and an image pickup condition setting unitwhich sets an image acquiring range corresponding to a range including an object of image acquisition as an image pickup condition of a micro image of the sample by referring to the reference macro image. This realizes an image acquiring apparatus, an image acquiring method, and an image acquiring program by which a macro image of a sample as an object of image acquisition is preferably acquired.