Patent application number | Description | Published |
20080259345 | THREE-DIMENSIONAL MICROSCOPE AND METHOD FOR OBTAINING THREE-DIMENSIONAL IMAGE - A microscope which has a high three-dimensional resolution, does not require specimens to be stained and is easy to operate, is presented. The three-dimensional microscope includes a first optical system for illuminating an object with lights in a plurality of illuminating directions, one direction after another; an imaging section; a second optical system for guiding diffracted lights generated by the object and reference lights to the imaging section that obtains interference images of the diffracted lights and the reference lights; and a processor for generating a three-dimensional image using the interference images for respective illuminating directions, obtained by the imaging section. The processor obtains complex amplitudes of the diffracted lights from the interference images for respective illuminating directions and generates the three-dimensional image of the object from the complex amplitudes. | 10-23-2008 |
20120262561 | MICROSCOPE SYSTEM, SERVER, AND PROGRAM - A microscope includes an illuminating optical system that illuminates the test object under predetermined illumination conditions, an imaging optical system that forms an image of the test object, and an image sensor that outputs an image signal. The computer includes an image analyzing unit that acquires an image feature amount of the test object on the basis of the image signal detected by the image sensor, a comparison unit that compares the image feature amount of the test object with image feature amounts of a plurality of sample test objects and specifies an image feature amount of a sample test object closest to the image feature amount of the test object, and a setting unit that sets illumination conditions of the illuminating optical system on the basis of an illumination state suitable for observation of a sample test object having the image feature amount specified by the comparison unit. | 10-18-2012 |
20120262562 | IMAGING APPARATUS AND PROGRAM - An imaging apparatus includes an imaging unit that images a test object, an analysis unit that outputs a feature amount of an image which is captured by the imaging unit, a storage unit that stores an evaluation function which has the image feature amount as a variable, for evaluation of the image, a selection unit that selects one image from two or more images including an image specified based on a value of the evaluation function, and a changing unit that changes the evaluation function based on the one image in a case where the one image selected by the selection unit is different from the specified image. | 10-18-2012 |
20120293644 | MICROSCOPE SYSTEM - A phase-contrast microscope system includes: an illumination optical system that illuminates a specimen with an illumination light from a light source; an imaging optical system that forms an image of the specimen from a light from the specimen; a first spatial modulation element that is disposed in a position of a pupil of the imaging optical system and changes an amplitude transmittance distribution of the light from the specimen; an image sensor that detects the image of the specimen by the imaging optical system and outputs a picture signal; a calculation section that calculates the amplitude transmittance distribution of the light from the specimen appropriate for observing the specimen on the basis of the output data detected by the image sensor and the amplitude transmittance distribution of the light from the specimen formed by the first spatial modulation element. | 11-22-2012 |
20140055594 | STRUCTURED ILLUMINATING MICROSCOPY AND STRUCTURED ILLUMINATING OBSERVATION METHOD - In order to realize a high-speed switching of structured pattern, a structured illuminating microscopy includes a driving unit generating a sonic standing wave in a sonic wave propagation path by giving a driving signal for vibrating a medium of the sonic wave propagation path to a light modulator, an illuminating optical system making at least three diffracted components of the exit light flux passed through the sonic wave propagation path to be interfered with one another, and forming interference fringes on an observational object, an image-forming optical system forming an image by an observational light flux from the observational object on a detector, and a controlling unit controlling a contrast of an image by modulating at least one of an intensity of the exit light flux, an intensity of the observational light flux, and the detector with a modulating signal of 1/N frequency of the driving signal. | 02-27-2014 |
20140092463 | STRUCTURED ILLUMINATION APPARATUS, STRUCTURED ILLUMINATION MICROSCOPY, AND STRUCTURED ILLUMINATION METHOD - A structured illumination apparatus includes a light modulator being disposed in a light path of an exit light flux from a light source, and in which a sonic wave propagation path is arranged in a direction traversing the exit light flux; a driving unit generating a sonic standing wave in the sonic wave propagation path by giving a driving signal for vibrating a medium of the sonic wave propagation path to the light modulator; an illuminating optical system making at least three diffracted lights of the exit light flux passed through the sonic wave propagation path to be interfered with one another, and forming interference fringes of the diffracted lights on an observational object; and a controlling unit controlling a contrast of the interference fringes by modulating a phase of at least one diffracted light among the diffracted lights in a predetermined pitch. | 04-03-2014 |
20140327960 | MICROSCOPE AND STIMULATING APPARATUS - A scanning microscope includes: a first scanning optical system that irradiates a specimen with light from a first light source via an objective lens to receive light from the specimen; and a second scanning optical system that irradiates the specimen with the light from the first light source or light from a second light source different from the first light source via the objective lens so as to cause the specimen to express a specific phenomenon. The second scanning optical system has a beam shaping optical system that shapes the light from the first light source or the light from the second light source such that a light convergence region on which the light from the first light source or the light from the second light source is collected via the objective lens satisfies a predetermined condition. | 11-06-2014 |