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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 07, 2017
Filed:
Nov. 24, 2014
Applicant:
Olympus Corporation, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo, JP;
Inventor:
Daisuke Nishiwaki, Tokyo, JP;
Assignee:
OLYMPUS CORPORATION, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G02B 21/36 (2006.01); G02B 21/06 (2006.01); G02B 21/16 (2006.01); G02B 21/22 (2006.01); H04N 13/02 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G02B 21/367 (2013.01); G02B 21/06 (2013.01); G02B 21/16 (2013.01); G02B 21/22 (2013.01); G02B 21/36 (2013.01); H04N 13/021 (2013.01); H04N 13/0221 (2013.01); H04N 13/0228 (2013.01); H04N 13/0239 (2013.01);
Abstract
A microscope device includes an illumination optical system that illuminates a specimen with a light sheet, and a stereo image capturing device that captures images of the specimen in a plurality of different directions in which a resolution based on a triangulation method in a Z direction orthogonal to a direction of one or a plurality of light sheets formed on the specimen by the illumination optical system is less than a thickness in the Z direction of light sheet illumination that comprises the one or the plurality of light sheets.