Imaging device
AssigneeHitachi High-Tech Corporation
InventorsMiku Maehara, Shigeru Kawamata, Yoshinobu Hoshino, Hiroyuki Chiba
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Abstract
An object of the invention is to easily acquire an image of a position corresponding between each section in an imaging device that acquires an image of a plurality of sample sections. The imaging device according to the invention calculates, according to a correspondence relationship between a characteristic point and a first observation region in a first sample section, coordinates of a second observation region of a second sample section, and generates an observation image at the calculated coordinates (see FIG. 7B).
Claims17
An imaging device configured to capture an image of a sample including a plurality of sections, the imaging device comprising:
- an imaging unit configured to generate an image signal indicating an image of the sample;
- a controller configured to generate the image of the sample using the image signal;
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- an interface configured to receive a specified input specifying coordinates in the image, wherein
- the interface receives the specified input specifying coordinates of a first characteristic point of a first sample section, and coordinates of a first observation region which is a partial region of the first sample section in the image,
- the interface further receives the specified input specifying coordinates of a second characteristic point of a second sample section in the image,
- the controller calculates, according to a first correspondence relationship between the coordinates of the first characteristic point and the first observation region, a second correspondence relationship between coordinates of the second characteristic point and coordinates of a second observation region which is a partial region of the second sample section,
- the controller specifies the coordinates of the second observation region according to the second correspondence relationship, and
- the imaging unit captures the specified second observation region.
An imaging device configured to capture an image of a sample including a plurality of sections, the imaging device comprising:
- an imaging unit configured to generate an image signal indicating an image of the sample;
- a controller configured to generate the image of the sample using the image signal;
- an interface configured to receive a specified input specifying coordinates in the image;
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- a display unit configured to display the image, wherein
- the interface receives the specified input specifying coordinates of a first characteristic point of a first sample section, and coordinates of a first observation region which is a partial region of the first sample section in the image,
- the interface further receives the specified input specifying coordinates of a third characteristic point of the first sample section and coordinates of a second characteristic point of a second sample section in the image,
- the controller obtains a distance between the coordinates of the first characteristic point and the coordinates of the third characteristic point, and obtains an arc having the coordinates of the second characteristic point as a center, and having the distance as a radius, and
- the display unit displays, as an image indicating relative coordinates of a fourth characteristic point of the second sample section, the arc having the coordinates of the second characteristic point as the center which is obtained by the controller.
An imaging device configured to capture an image of a sample including a plurality of sections, the imaging device comprising:
- an imaging unit configured to generate an image signal indicating an image of the sample;
- a controller configured to generate the image of the sample using the image signal;
- an interface configured to receive a specified input specifying coordinates in the image;
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- a display unit configured to display the image, wherein
- the interface receives the specified input specifying coordinates of a first characteristic point of a first sample section, and coordinates of a first observation region which is a partial region of the first sample section in the image,
- the interface further receives the specified input specifying coordinates of a third characteristic point of the first sample section and coordinates of a second characteristic point of a second sample section in the image,
- the controller obtains a first line segment between the coordinates of the first characteristic point and the coordinates of the third characteristic point,
- the controller obtains a second line segment starting from the coordinates of the second characteristic point, having a length equal to a length of the first line segment and being parallel to the first line segment, and
- the display unit displays the second line segment obtained by the controller as an image indicating relative coordinates of a fourth characteristic point of the second sample section.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.