IP Library Granted Patent US 9,829,694
Granted Patent B2
US 9,829,694 · App. 14/539,005 · Granted Nov 28, 2017

Microscope system

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Patent No.
US 9,829,694
App. No.
14/539,005
Granted
Nov 28, 2017
Kind
B2
Abstract

Provided is a microscope system including a microscope provided with a multi-channel image-acquisition unit that acquires images of a specimen at respective wavelengths; an adjustment-method storage portion that stores, for respective channels, contrast adjusting methods for the images acquired by the image-acquisition unit; and a contrast adjusting portion that adjusts, for the respective channels, contrasts of the images acquired by the image-acquisition unit based on the contrast adjusting methods stored in the adjustment-method storage portion.

Claims (19)

1. A microscope system comprising:

a microscope comprising a multi-channel image-acquisition sensor configured to acquire images of a specimen at a plurality of channels of respective wavelengths; and

a controller configured to:

read, for respective channels, contrast adjusting methods for the images acquired by the multi-channel image-acquisition sensor;

generate data representing luminance histograms for the respective images acquired by the multi-channel image-acquisition sensor; and

process the generated data to remove lower luminance sides of the respective luminance histograms in which luminance is equal to or less than predetermined thresholds separately set for the plurality of channels

based on the contrast adjusting methods read, to thereby adjust contrasts of the images acquired by the multi-channel image-acquisition sensor.

2. The microscope system according to claim 1 , further comprising:

a microscope-setting reading sensor configured to read a setting of the microscope,

wherein the controller is configured to correct the contrast adjusting methods based on the setting of the microscope read by the microscope-setting reading sensor.

3. The microscope system according to claim 2 ,

wherein the microscope further comprises an objective lens, and

wherein the setting of the microscope comprises a magnification of the objective lens.

4. The microscope system according to claim 1 , further comprising:

an adjustment-method input device configured to receive input of the contrast adjusting methods to be read by the controller.

5. The microscope system according to claim 1 ,

wherein the controller is configured to:

combine the images whose contrasts have been adjusted to thereby generate a combined image; and

control a display to display the combined image.

Assignments (2)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jan 25, 2023
From: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
To: EVIDENT CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 062492/0267 →
CHANGE OF ADDRESS Recorded Apr 24, 2017
From: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
To: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 042318/0933 →