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 for holding and transporting said samples three-dimensionally;
photography control means for controlling said digital photography means to photograph a plurality of said high-magnification photographs with a predetermined interval, and for controlling said sample transport means to successively move said samples perpendicularly to an optical axis of said microscope to provide a margin where one of said photographs partly overlaps with another of said photographs, said sample transport means also moving the sample minutely along the optical axis of said microscope in each of locations where the sample is moved perpendicular to the optical axis, to thereby obtain the three-dimensional high-magnification 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;
external digital camera means for photographing an entire image of said samples, different from the digital photography means, andphotograph file generation means for storing in one file said entire image of said samples, 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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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 for holding and transporting said samples three-dimensionally; photography control means for controlling said digital photography means to photograph a plurality of said high-magnification photographs with a predetermined interval, and for controlling said sample transport means to successively move said samples perpendicularly to an optical axis of said microscope to provide a margin where one of said photographs partly overlaps with another of said photographs, said sample transport means also moving the sample minutely along the optical axis of said microscope in each of locations where the sample is moved perpendicular to the optical axis, to thereby obtain the three-dimensional high-magnification 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; external digital camera means for photographing an entire image of said samples, different from the digital photography means, and photograph file generation means for storing in one file said entire image of said samples, said plurality of high-magnification photographs and said pasting-together information. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11)
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