Slide photograph data creation system, and slide photograph data
First Claim
1. A slide photograph data creation system, comprising:
- digital photography means provided in a microscope, for photographing high-magnification photographs of samples;
sample transport means capable of moving three-dimensionally, for holding and transporting said samples;
photography control means for controlling said digital photography means to photograph a plurality of said high-magnification photographs, and for controlling said sample transport means to successively move said samples perpendicularly to an optical axis of said microscope to provide a margin for pasting photographs, said margin being located where one of said photographs partly overlaps with another of said photographs;
pasting information generation means for recognizing said margin by photograph processing from said plurality of high-magnification photographs, and for generating pasting information of said plurality of high-magnification photographs; and
photograph file generation means for storing in one file said plurality of high-magnification photographs and said pasting-together information.
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Abstract
A slide photograph data creation system includes a digital camera for making high-magnification photographs of samples, a sample transporter for holding and transporting samples, a controller for controlling the camera and the sample transporter so as to provide overlapping photographs, a pasting information generator for recognizing the margin by which the photographs overlap and for generating pasting-together information, and a photograph file generator for storing in a single file a plurality of high-magnification photographs and the pasting-together information. The system facilitates the examination and photography of large numbers of samples, and enables discrimination of the three-dimensional structure of a sample. Since the photographic data is managed with a database, virtual slide photographs and their attributes information can be browsed over a network or the Internet.
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14 Claims
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1. A slide photograph data creation system, comprising:
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digital photography means provided in a microscope, for photographing high-magnification photographs of samples;
sample transport means capable of moving three-dimensionally, for holding and transporting said samples;
photography control means for controlling said digital photography means to photograph a plurality of said high-magnification photographs, and for controlling said sample transport means to successively move said samples perpendicularly to an optical axis of said microscope to provide a margin for pasting photographs, said margin being located where one of said photographs partly overlaps with another of said photographs;
pasting information generation means for recognizing said margin by photograph processing from said plurality of high-magnification photographs, and for generating pasting information of said plurality of high-magnification photographs; and
photograph file generation means for storing in one file said plurality of high-magnification photographs and said pasting-together information. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14)
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