Image-acquisition apparatus
    2.
    发明授权

    公开(公告)号:US10198617B2

    公开(公告)日:2019-02-05

    申请号:US15591609

    申请日:2017-05-10

    Abstract: Provided is an image-acquisition apparatus that includes: a stage on which a specimen is mounted; an objective lens that collects light from the specimen mounted on the stage; a motor that drives the stage in the direction intersecting an optical axis of the objective lens; an imaging device that acquires images by capturing the light collected by the objective lens; and a processor comprising hardware, wherein the processor is configured to implement: a deterioration-level calculation unit configured to calculate deterioration levels contained in the acquired images; and an image generating unit configured to generate a pasted image by pasting the acquired images, wherein the image generating unit is configured to generate the pasted image by combining, for a common region of two images that are mutually pasted, an image with lower deterioration level calculated by the deterioration-level calculation unit at a higher combining ratio.

    Microscope system. method and computer-readable storage device storing instructions for generating joined images

    公开(公告)号:US10359616B2

    公开(公告)日:2019-07-23

    申请号:US15334371

    申请日:2016-10-26

    Abstract: Provided are a microscope including a stage that is movable in a direction perpendicular to an observation optical axis and a camera capturing an image of a sample mounted on the stage; and a processor including hardware, wherein the processor is configured to implement: a generating unit configured to join the image of the sample to generate a joined image; a determination unit configured to determine whether the position of the stage is a position suitable for image capturing; a notifying unit configured to, when it is determined that the position is suitable, issue a notification to that effect; and a control unit configured to control the generating unit so as to join the image obtained by the camera when the moving speed of the stage is at or below a prescribed threshold, in the state where it is being notified that the position is suitable for image capturing.

    Microscope system and method for estimating microscope magnification

    公开(公告)号:US10151911B2

    公开(公告)日:2018-12-11

    申请号:US15386105

    申请日:2016-12-21

    Abstract: Provided is a microscope system including: a microscope that includes an optical member disposed in an optical path so as to be switchable and that acquires an image of a specimen; and a processor including hardware, wherein the processor is configured to implement: a magnification-estimation unit that, on the basis of a pre-switching optical magnification of the optical member in the microscope, is configured to estimate a post-switching optical magnification, wherein while scaling one of a pre-switching image acquired before switching of the optical member and a post-switching image acquired after switching of the optical member to a plurality of search images respectively corresponding to a plurality of search magnifications, the magnification-estimation unit is configured to calculate a degree of similarity to the other image and estimates the post-switching optical magnification from the search magnification when the calculated degree of similarity becomes the maximum.

    Microscope system
    5.
    发明授权

    公开(公告)号:US10018826B2

    公开(公告)日:2018-07-10

    申请号:US15784237

    申请日:2017-10-16

    Abstract: A microscope system includes: a stage for placing a sample and movable in a direction; a position detecting unit that detects the stage position; an imaging unit that captures an image of the sample; an image generating unit that combines the acquired image based on the detected position; a position searching unit that searches for the position of an image on the generated combined image as the stage position; a switching detecting unit that detects switching of an optical member; and a control unit that corrects, when switching is detected, the stage position based on a difference between the stage position detected by the position detecting unit and the stage position searched by the position searching unit so that the stage position detected by the position detecting unit coincides with the stage position searched by the position searching unit.

    Microscope system
    6.
    发明授权

    公开(公告)号:US10261307B2

    公开(公告)日:2019-04-16

    申请号:US15784248

    申请日:2017-10-16

    Abstract: Provided is a microscope system including: a stage on which a sample is placed and that is movable in a direction orthogonal to an observation optical axis; a detecting unit that detects a position of the stage; an imaging unit that acquires an image of the sample on the stage; an image generating unit that generates an overlapped image by overlapping the acquired image with the position of the stage; a searching unit that searches for a position of the acquired image in the generated overlapped image; and a control unit that performs control including causing the image generating unit to stop the overlapping process and causing the searching unit to execute the position search when detection by the detecting unit fails, and causing the image generating unit to resume the overlapping process starting from a search position of the searching unit when the search is successful.

    Image-processing device, image-processing method, and microscope

    公开(公告)号:US10540754B2

    公开(公告)日:2020-01-21

    申请号:US15801683

    申请日:2017-11-02

    Abstract: An image-processing device is provided with: a pattern-matching portion that performs pattern matching between a first image and a second image acquired before the first image and that outputs a motion vector between the images and an evaluation value that indicates the accuracy of the motion vector; a recursive noise-reduction portion that outputs a noise reduction image, which is the first image to which noise reduction has been applied, and that performs noise reduction in which an image based on the first image and an image based on the noise reduction image formed in the past are mixed in accordance with a predetermined recursion amount; and a controlling portion that controls a recursion amount in the recursive noise-reduction portion on the basis of the motion vector and the evaluation value output by the pattern-matching portion and a gain that is applied to the first image to adjust a brightness thereof.

    Image acquisition apparatus
    8.
    发明授权

    公开(公告)号:US10401608B2

    公开(公告)日:2019-09-03

    申请号:US15593856

    申请日:2017-05-12

    Abstract: An image acquisition apparatus including: a stage on which a specimen is mounted; an objective lens that collects light from the specimen; a stage driving part that drives the stage; an image capturing unit that acquires an image by photographing the light collected by the objective lens; an image-generating unit that generates a pasted image by pasting the captured image acquired by the image capturing unit; a storage unit that stores the pasted image; a color-difference calculating unit that calculates a degree of dissimilarity between a color of the pasted image and a color of the captured image prior to pasting; and a color-difference correcting unit that corrects the color of the captured image so as to match the color of the pasted image, on the basis of the calculated degree of dissimilarity.

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