| US 7,486,886 B2 | ||
| Photo-micrographing device and its control method | ||
| Hideaki Endo, Tokyo (Japan); Akitsugu Kagayama, Tokyo (Japan); and Katsuyoshi Yamaguchi, Tokyo (Japan) | ||
| Assigned to Olympus Corporation, Tokyo (Japan) | ||
| Filed on Jan. 11, 2006, as Appl. No. 11/330,874. | ||
| Claims priority of application No. 2005-034110 (JP), filed on Feb. 10, 2005. | ||
| Prior Publication US 2006/0176367 A1, Aug. 10, 2006 | ||
| Int. Cl. G02B 21/36 (2006.01) | ||
| U.S. Cl. 396—432 [359/369] | 6 Claims |
| 1. A photo-micrographing device, comprising:
a microscope whose stage for holding an inspection object and whose objective lens for focusing light which has been incident
on the inspection object can be relatively moved three-dimensionally;
a camera unit for shooting the inspection object and obtaining an image of the inspection object;
a position storage unit for setting a plurality of view fields of the microscope by relatively moving at least one of the
stage and the objective lens, and storing position information of the stage corresponding to each view field;
a setting information storage unit for storing setting information of the microscope and the camera unit in each view field;
a time-lapse information storage unit for storing shooting conditions corresponding to each view field where time-lapse shooting
is applied;
a camera control unit for obtaining a time-lapse shooting image for each view field where the time-lapse shooting is applied,
based on the position information stored in the position storage unit, the setting information stored in the setting information
storage unit corresponding to the position information, and the shooting conditions stored in the time-lapse information storage
unit; and
an image display unit for collectively displaying latest time-lapse shooting images taken by the camera unit for each view
field where the time-lapse shooting is applied.
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