Time lapse shooting apparatus and observation method
AssigneeNikon Corporation
InventorHiroaki Kii
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Abstract
A certain material irregularly expressed in an observation area is effectively observed. An observing apparatus includes a first observing unit performing a time lapse shooting of a predetermined observation area, a first discriminating unit discriminating whether or not a first material is expressed in the observation area based on an image obtained by the first observing unit, and a second observing unit starting a time lapse shooting relating to a part where the first material is expressed at a timing when the first material is expressed in the observation area, in which a shooting frequency of the time lapse shooting by the second observing unit is higher than a shooting frequency of the time lapse shooting by the first observing unit.
Claims15
An observing apparatus, comprising:
- an image-forming optical system;
- an input device configured to receive an input from a user;
- an imaging device;
- and
- a controller configured to:
- connect to the input device,
- control an illumination device and the imaging device to perform a first time lapse shooting of a first observation area at a first shooting frequency,
- determine whether or not a first material is expressed in the first observation area based on a first threshold set via the input device and an image obtained during the first time lapse shooting, and
- control the illumination device and the image device to perform a second time lapse shooting of a second observation area at a timing when the first material is expressed in the first observation area and at a second shooting frequency that is higher than the first shooting frequency.
An observation method, comprising:
- receiving input from a user via an input device;
- performing a first time lapse shooting of a first observation area at a first shooting frequency;
- determining whether or not a first material is expressed in the first observation area based on a first threshold set via the input device and an image obtained during the first time lapse shooting;
- and
- performing a second time lapse shooting of a second observation area at a timing when the first material is expressed in the first observation area and at a second shooting frequency that is higher than the first shooting frequency.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.