Patents by Inventor Michael Wacke

Michael Wacke has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 10567719
    Abstract: A method for correcting colors of a color reproduction of a digital microscope and a digital microscope are described. In a first step of a method according to the invention, a color image of a sample that is to be examined under the microscope is recorded. When the recording is performed, wavelength-dependent properties of a microscope illumination unit that illuminates the sample are determined in order to describe a state of the microscope illumination unit, in that settings selected at the microscope illumination unit are captured. A set of correction values is determined, which is associated with a state of the microscope illumination unit that is selected in accordance with the state of the microscope illumination unit determined when the recording is performed. In a further step, the colors of the recorded color image of the sample are corrected by applying the correction values of the previously determined set.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2020
    Assignee: CARL ZEISS MICROSCOPY GMBH
    Inventors: Alexander Gaiduk, Burkhard Goetz, Stanislav Kalinin, Michael Wacke, Markus Jaeger
  • Publication number: 20170264876
    Abstract: A method for correcting colors of a color reproduction of a digital microscope and a digital microscope are described. In a first step of a method according to the invention, a color image of a sample that is to be examined under the microscope is recorded. When the recording is performed, wavelength-dependent properties of a microscope illumination unit that illuminates the sample are determined in order to describe a state of the microscope illumination unit, in that settings selected at the microscope illumination unit are captured. A set of correction values is determined, which is associated with a state of the microscope illumination unit that is selected in accordance with the state of the microscope illumination unit determined when the recording is performed. In a further step, the colors of the recorded color image of the sample are corrected by applying the correction values of the previously determined set.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 25, 2015
    Publication date: September 14, 2017
    Inventors: Alexander GAIDUK, Burkhard GOETZ, Stanislav KALININ, Michael WACKE, Markus JAEGER
  • Patent number: 9557550
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for operating a microscope device having a first and a second zoom microscope, wherein a zoom adjustment of the second zoom microscope is carried out in dependence upon a zoom adjustment of the first zoom microscope.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2017
    Assignee: Carl Zeiss Microscopy GmbH
    Inventors: Gerhard Moeller, Steffen Leidenbach, Michael Wacke, Becky Hohman
  • Patent number: 8958159
    Abstract: A wide range zoom system, for microscopes. The zoom system includes five lens groups, of which, starting at the object side, the second and fourth lens group are displaceable in the axial direction relative to the first, third and fifth lens group. A stop of variable opening diameter that is stationary relative to the first, third and fifth lens group is provided between the second and fourth lens group, wherein the maximum opening diameter of said stop is in middle zoom magnifications. As magnification increases, the object-side aperture increases non-linearly in relation to the magnification, such that in regions of low magnifications the object-side aperture increases more sharply than in regions of higher magnifications.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 17, 2015
    Assignee: Carl Zeiss Microscopy GmbH
    Inventors: Michael Wacke, Joerg Sprenger
  • Publication number: 20130342901
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for operating a microscope device having a first and a second zoom microscope, wherein a zoom adjustment of the second zoom microscope is carried out in dependence upon a zoom adjustment of the first zoom microscope.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 19, 2013
    Publication date: December 26, 2013
    Inventors: Gerhard Moeller, Steffen Leidenbach, Michael Wacke, Becky Hohman
  • Publication number: 20130242407
    Abstract: A wide range zoom system, for microscopes. The zoom system includes five lens groups, of which, starting at the object side, the second and fourth lens group are displaceable in the axial direction relative to the first, third and fifth lens group. A stop of variable opening diameter that is stationary relative to the first, third and fifth lens group is provided between the second and fourth lens group, wherein the maximum opening diameter of said stop is in middle zoom magnifications. As magnification increases, the object-side aperture increases non-linearly in relation to the magnification, such that in regions of low magnifications the object-side aperture increases more sharply than in regions of higher magnifications.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 17, 2011
    Publication date: September 19, 2013
    Applicant: CARL ZEISS MICROSCOPY GMBH
    Inventors: Michael Wacke, Joerg Sprenger