Abstract: A microscope system includes a virtual-slide microscope that acquires a virtual-slide image of a specimen when mounted on a first stage, and a fluorescence microscope that acquires a fluorescence image of the specimen when mounted on a second stage. The virtual-slide microscope includes a display and an image-capturing-condition setting portion that sets image capturing conditions, including a fluorescence-image acquisition position, on the virtual-slide image. The fluorescence microscope includes a memory portion that stores coordinate transformation data between the coordinates of the specimen when fixed on the first stage and the coordinates of the specimen when fixed on the second stage, a condition input portion to which the image capturing conditions are input, and a driving-condition setting portion that sets a driving condition on the basis of the image capturing conditions and the coordinate transformation data.

Abstract: A microscope system includes a virtual-slide microscope that acquires a virtual-slide image of a specimen when mounted on a first stage, and a fluorescence microscope that acquires a fluorescence image of the specimen when mounted on a second stage. The virtual-slide microscope includes a display and an image-capturing-condition setting portion that sets image capturing conditions, including a fluorescence-image acquisition position, on the virtual-slide image. The fluorescence microscope includes a memory portion that stores coordinate transformation data between the coordinates of the specimen when fixed on the first stage and the coordinates of the specimen when fixed on the second stage, a condition input portion to which the image capturing conditions are input, and a driving-condition setting portion that sets a driving condition on the basis of the image capturing conditions and the coordinate transformation data.

Abstract: The microscopic image capture apparatus includes: a slide glass transfer unit 17 transfers a slide glass 10 from a first slide glass storage unit 16 to a space under a microscope objective lens 11; a wide field-of-view image capture unit 60 captures the entire image of wide field-of-view of the slide glass 10 in synchronization with the transfer of the slide glass 10 by the slide glass transfer unit 17; a microscopic image capture unit 14 captures a microscopic image of the sample S on the slide glass 10 whose entire image of wide field-of-view has been captured by the wide field-of-view image capture unit 60; and a slide glass storage unit 18 stores the slide glass 10 whose sample S has been captured by the microscopic image capture unit 14 from the observation position of the microscope 11 into the second slide glass tray unit 19.

Abstract: A micromanipulation system for applying a micro manipulation to an object within the view of a microscope, using a fine needle, comprising: a manipulator driving unit for transferring the fine needle at least along the optic axis direction of the microscope, a micro manipulation starting position determining unit for determining a micro manipulation starting position as a reference position, an object transfer unit for relatively transferring the respective positions of the object and object lens, a focus position detecting unit for detecting a focus position indicating the focus of the object in the object lens, in accordance with the relative transfer of the object, an object transfer control unit for controlling a movement of the object transfer unit, based on the detection result, and a micro manipulation control unit for performing the micro manipulation.

Abstract: A microscopic image capture apparatus extracts an area including a sample image from an image obtained by capturing the entire sample, sets a plurality of horizontal positions for acquisition of a height coordinate Z from the extracted sample image area, reads a height coordinate which is a focal point position at the set horizontal position, computes an adjusted position of a focal point in an arbitrary position in the sample image area using the read height coordinate data, and transfers the height of a sample to the adjusted focal position as computed above when the sample is horizontally traveled.

Abstract: A microscope body has at least one observation unit and is capable of being operated by respective controller corresponding to this observation unit. An operation unit determines the operation instruction for the respective controller. An operation switch detecting unit detects an operation of the operation unit and informs the detected operation to the exterior of the microscope body. An outer control device has a storage unit, in which first operational instructing information for the respective controller is registered, and identifies the operational instructing information corresponding to a detected result from the operation switch detecting unit with reference to the storage unit. An observation unit control section converts the operational instructing information which is identified by the outer control device, into operation instructing commands for the observation unit and gives the operation instructing commands to the respective controller.

Abstract: The microscopic image capture apparatus includes: a slide glass transfer unit 17 transfers a slide glass 10 from a first slide glass storage unit 16 to a space under a microscope objective lens 11; a wide field-of-view image capture unit 60 captures the entire image of wide field-of-view of the slide glass 10 in synchronization with the transfer of the slide glass 10 by the slide glass transfer unit 17; a microscopic image capture unit 14 captures a microscopic image of the sample S on the slide glass 10 whose entire image of wide field-of-view has been captured by the wide field-of-view image capture unit 60; and a slide glass storage unit 18 stores the slide glass 10 whose sample S has been captured by the microscopic image capture unit 14 from the observation position of the microscope 11 into the second slide glass tray unit 19.

Abstract: A microscope body has at least one observation unit and is capable of being operated by respective controller corresponding to this observation unit. An operation unit determines the operation instruction for the respective controller. An operation switch detecting unit detects an operation of the operation unit and informs the detected operation to the exterior of the microscope body. An outer control device has a storage unit, in which first operational instructing information for the respective controller is registered, and identifies the operational instructing information corresponding to a detected result from the operation switch detecting unit with reference to the storage unit. An observation unit control section converts the operational instructing information which is identified by the outer control device, into operation instructing commands for the observation unit and gives the operation instructing commands to the respective controller.