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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 04, 2015
Filed:
Oct. 20, 2010
Applicants:
Shigeto Kaminaga, Tokyo, JP;
Shinichiro Aizaki, Tokyo, JP;
Inventors:
Shigeto Kaminaga, Tokyo, JP;
Shinichiro Aizaki, Tokyo, JP;
Assignee:
OLYMPUS CORPORATION, Tokyo, JP;
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 7/18 (2006.01); H04N 5/349 (2011.01); G02B 21/16 (2006.01); G02B 21/36 (2006.01); H04N 5/235 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 5/349 (2013.01); G02B 21/16 (2013.01); G02B 21/365 (2013.01); H04N 5/235 (2013.01); H04N 5/2351 (2013.01); H04N 5/2355 (2013.01);
Abstract
An imaging apparatus includes: an imaging unit for capturing an image of a fluorescent sample; a pixel shift unit for changing the relative position of the imaging unit for the image; an image correction unit for correcting the gray-scale levels of plural pieces of image data using the histograms of the image data acquired by the imaging unit at different relative positions; and an image combination unit for combining the plural pieces of image data corrected by the image correction unit.