Microscope

• US 7,518,791 B2
• Filed: 04/07/2005
• Issued: 04/14/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 05/06/2004
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Leica Instruments Singapore Pte Ltd (Danaher Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Leica Microsystems (Schweiz) AG
• Inventors: Sander, Ulrich
• Primary Examiner(s): Pritchett; Joshua L
• Application Number:
  US11/568,649
• Publication Number:
  US 20070216998A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,468 Days
• Field of Search: 359368-398
• US Class Current: 359/368
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2090/371 with simultaneous use of two cameras
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2090/372 Details of monitor hardware
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 90/36 Image-producing devices or illumination devices not otherwise provided for
• CPC Class Codes: G02B 21/0012 Surgical microscopes counterbalanced structures for surgical microscopes G02B7/001
• CPC Class Codes: G02B 21/361 Optical details, e.g. image relay to the camera or image sensor G02B21/364 takes precedence; illumination details G02B21/06 and subgroups

Abstract

Microscope comprising microscope optics (25), a camera device (7) for recordal of images, captured by the microscope optics (25), of an object to be observed, and a display apparatus (12) which can be viewed by an observer for displaying the images taken by the camera device (7), wherein at least one area of the display apparatus (12) is constructed as a deflecting device (13) for deflecting light beams emitted by the object which is to be observed into the microscope optics (25).

Claims

1. A microscope comprising:

microscope optics for imaging an object;

a camera device arranged to record images captured by the microscope optics; and

a display apparatus connected to the camera device for displaying images recorded by the camera device to an observer, wherein at least one area of the display apparatus includes a deflecting device for deflecting light beams coming from an object into the microscope optics.

2. The microscope according to claim 1, wherein the deflecting device is provided on a side of the display apparatus opposite from a side of the display apparatus viewed by an observer.

3. The microscope according to claim 2, wherein the deflecting device is aligned so that the light beams coming from an object and deflected into the microscope optics extend substantially along a line of sight of an observer before the light beams are deflected by the deflecting device into the microscope optics.

4. The microscope according to claim 1, wherein the display apparatus includes a flat screen.

5. The microscope according to claim 1, wherein the display apparatus can be switched into a transparent mode in which the light beams coming from an object are at least partially transmitted through the display apparatus to an observer.

6. The microscope according to claim 1, wherein the deflecting device includes a mirror surface.

7. The microscope according to claim 1, wherein the deflecting device includes an electronically switchable mirror.

8. The microscope according to claim 1, wherein the deflecting device includes a switchable and/or holographic reflective display.

9. The microscope according to claim 1, wherein the microscope is a stereomicroscope.

10. The microscope according to claim 9, wherein the display apparatus (12) has a stereoscopic viewing function.

11. The microscope according to claim 10, further comprising spatial sensors for reading spatial markings on an object, whereby external data can be displayed stereoscopically, spatially and with the correct magnification by the display apparatus according to a selected magnification of the microscope optics.