Imaging apparatus, imaging control program, and imaging method
An imaging apparatus includes: a first imaging area setting unit configured to divide an imaging range that includes a sample into a plurality of areas and set each of the plurality of areas as a first imaging area; a first imaging unit configured to capture a first image at an in-focus position of the first imaging area; a second imaging area setting unit configured to set an area that extends over adjacent first imaging areas as a second imaging area in a case where in-focus positions of the adjacent first imaging areas are so different from each other that the difference exceeds a predetermined value; a second imaging unit configured to capture a second image at an in-focus position of the second imaging area; and an image combining unit configured to combine the first image with the second image.
1. An imaging apparatus, comprising:
a first imaging area setting unit configured to divide an imaging range that includes a sample into a plurality of areas and set each of the plurality of areas as a first imaging area;
a first imaging unit configured to capture a first image at an in-focus position of the first imaging area;
a second imaging area setting unit configured to set a second imaging area that includes a portion of a pair of adjacent first imaging areas;
a second imaging unit configured to capture a second image at an in-focus position of the second imaging area;
an image combining unit configured to combine the first image with the second image; and
wherein the in-focus position of the pair of adjacent first imaging areas is different.
2. The imaging unit according to claim 1 , wherein
the second imaging unit is configured to set a center of the in-focus positions of the adjacent first imaging areas as an in-focus position of the second imaging area.
3. The imaging unit according to claim 1 , wherein
the first imaging unit is configured to detect the in-focus position of the first imaging area by using a phase difference image of the first imaging area.
4. The imaging unit according to claim 1 , wherein
the image combining unit is configured to combine a central part of the first image with a central part of the second image.
5. An imaging control program stored in a non-transitory computer readable medium for causing a computer to function as:
a first imaging area setting unit configured to divide an imaging range that includes a sample into a plurality of areas and set each of the plurality of areas as a first imaging area;
a first imaging unit configured to capture a first image at an in-focus position of the first imaging area;
a second imaging area setting unit configured to set a second imaging area that includes a portion of a pair of adjacent first imaging areas;
a second imaging unit configured to capture a second image at an in-focus position of the second imaging area;
an image combining unit configured to combine the first image with the second image; and
wherein the in-focus position of the pair of adjacent first imaging areas is different.
6. An imaging method, comprising:
dividing an imaging range that includes a sample into a plurality of areas and setting each of the plurality of areas as a first imaging area by a first imaging area setting unit;
capturing a first image at an in-focus position of the first imaging area by a first imaging unit;
setting a second imaging area that includes a portion of a pair of adjacent first imaging areas;
capturing a second image at an in-focus position of the second imaging area by a second imaging unit; and
combining the first image with the second image by an image combining unit;
wherein the in-focus position of the pair of adjacent first imaging areas is different.
7. The imaging unit according to claim 1 , wherein
the first image unit captures a high magnification image for the first imaging area before the second imaging area setting unit sets the second imaging area on a low magnification image.
8. The imaging unit according to claim 1 , wherein
the second imaging area includes a half size imaging area from each of the pair of adjacent first imaging areas.