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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 24, 2012
Filed:
Dec. 18, 2007
Shinichiro Aizaki, Tokyo, JP;
Yujin Arai, Tokyo, JP;
Shinichiro Aizaki, Tokyo, JP;
Yujin Arai, Tokyo, JP;
Olympus Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An unit for switchable arranging an arbitrary optical element on an optical path of fluorescence from among a plurality of types of the optical elements that transmit an excitation beam for exciting a sample and fluorescence emitted from the sample; an unit for picking up the observation image via the optical element arranged; and an unit for determining a type of the optical element arranged on the basis of the observation image picked up are prepared in order to provide a microscope image processing device, a program product, a program transmission medium and a method are provided, by which an optical element such as a fluorescence cube set on a fluorescence microscope can be identified on the basis of a detection result of an image pick up device that picks up an image of a sample to be observed by using the fluorescence microscope.