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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 28, 2012
Filed:
Sep. 28, 2009
Hisashi Okugawa, Yokosuka, JP;
Hisashi Okugawa, Yokosuka, JP;
Nikon Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
The present application generates an image suitable for collectively observing a whole area or all wavelength components in a viewing field. A confocal microscope apparatus includes a detecting unit being disposed on a collecting location of the collecting optical system, separating incident light into a light from a vicinity of a collecting point on the sample and a light from a peripheral of the vicinity, and detecting each of the lights; and an image generating unit generating an image of the sample by a light signal from the vicinity and a light signal from the peripheral of the vicinity, and setting a ratio of the signal of the light from the vicinity of the collecting point to the signal of the light from the peripheral of the vicinity for each of areas on the image.