| US 7,477,775 B2 | ||
| Microscope system | ||
| Masahiro Oba, Tokyo (Japan); and Tetsuya Koike, Komagane (Japan) | ||
| Assigned to Olympus Corporation, Tokyo (Japan) | ||
| Filed on Jul. 01, 2004, as Appl. No. 10/883,340. | ||
| Claims priority of application No. 2003-276457 (JP), filed on Jul. 18, 2003. | ||
| Prior Publication US 2005/0013478 A1, Jan. 20, 2005 | ||
| Int. Cl. G06K 9/00 (2006.01) | ||
| U.S. Cl. 382—154 | 18 Claims |
| 1. A confocal scanning microscope, comprising:
a projected image building unit which builds projected two-dimensional images on respective planes mutually intersecting in
three-dimensional space from a three-dimensional image projected on the mutually intersecting planes, the projected three-dimensional
image being obtained by stacking a plurality of two-dimensional confocal images of a sample in a direction of an optical axis
of an objective lens, the plurality of two-dimensional confocal images being obtained by changing a focal position of the
objective lens against the sample in the direction of the optical axis of the objective lens;
a specified region obtaining unit which obtains two-dimensional regions specified for the projected two-dimensional images
on each of the three planes, and which represents the specified two-dimensional regions on the respective projected two-dimensional
images;
a target region forming unit which forms a three-dimensional target region from the specified two-dimensional regions of the
projected two-dimensional images on the three planes; and
a target region display unit which displays an image where the three-dimensional target region is represented along with the
projected three-dimensional image.
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