Microscope system

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9829694-B2
Application number	US-201414539005-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Nov 12, 2014
Priority date	Nov 28, 2013
Publication date	Nov 28, 2017
Grant date	Nov 28, 2017

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.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

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.

Assignees

• Olympus Corp

Inventors

• Okabe Masashi

Classifications

• G01J3/027

  Control of working procedures of a spectrometer; Failure detection; Bandwidth calculation · CPC title

• G06T5/009

  Physics · mapped topic

• H04N5/205

  for correcting amplitude versus frequency characteristic · CPC title

• G06T2207/10056

  Microscopic image · CPC title

• G01J2003/2826

  Multispectral imaging, e.g. filter imaging · CPC title