Microscopy system and microscopy method for plural observers
AssigneeCarl-Zeiss-Stiftung trading as Carl Zeiss
InventorsKarlheinz Hermann, Frank Rudolph, Martin Schneider, Joachim Steffen, Michael Wirth
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Abstract
A microscopy system allows to superimpose a light optically generated microscopic image of an object with an electronically generated image. The electronically generated image is composed of two input images, one of which is independent of optical settings of an ocular tube, such as a rotational position and a magnification thereof, and the other input image is dependent of the optical setting.
Claims13
A microscopy system for observing on object positionable in an object plane, the system comprising:
- at least one objective lens arrangement for receiving an object side beam emanating from the object plane and for transforming the object side beam into an image side beam;
- plural ocular systems, wherein each ocular system comprises at least one ocular tube having at least one ocular for generating an image of the object plane from the image side beam, wherein each of the plural ocular systems further comprises at least one image projector having a display for superimposing an image displayed by the display with the beam path of the ocular system such that the image of the object plane is perceived by the observer in superposition with the image of the display, and wherein at least one optical setting of a first ocular system of the plural ocular systems is adjustable independently of a corresponding optical setting of a second ocular system of the plural ocular systems;
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- a controller for generating the image displayed by the display of the first ocular system, wherein the controller is configured to generate the displayed image from a first input image based on the at least one optical setting of the first ocular system.
A microscopy method for displaying a magnified image of an object plane for plural observers, the method comprising:
- light optically generating images of the object plane with plural optics, wherein a first optics of the plural optics has at least one optical parameter which may be adjusted independently of a corresponding optical parameter of a second optics of the plural optics;
- electronically generating at least one representation of a first input image based on the at least one adjustable optical parameter;
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- superimposing an image of the electronically generated representation with the light optically generated image generated with the first optics.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.