(19)
(11) EP 2 322 969 A8

(12) CORRECTED EUROPEAN PATENT APPLICATION
Note: Bibliography reflects the latest situation

(15) Correction information:
Corrected version no 1 (W1 A1)

(48) Corrigendum issued on:
14.09.2011 Bulletin 2011/37

(43) Date of publication:
18.05.2011 Bulletin 2011/20

(21) Application number: 10014466.6

(22) Date of filing: 10.11.2010
(51) International Patent Classification (IPC): 
G02B 21/36(2006.01)
 G02B 21/18(2006.01)
(84) Designated Contracting States:
AL AT BE BG CH CY CZ DE DK EE ES FI FR GB GR HR HU IE IS IT LI LT LU LV MC MK MT NL NO PL PT RO RS SE SI SK SM TR
Designated Extension States:
BA ME

(30) Priority: 13.11.2009 JP 2009259914

(71) Applicant: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
Shibuya-ku Tokyo 151-0072 (JP)

(72) Inventor:
  • Suzuki, Shingo
    Tokyo 151-0072 (JP)

(74) Representative: Gunzelmann, Rainer 
Wuesthoff & Wuesthoff Patent- und Rechtsanwälte Schweigerstraße 2
81541 München
81541 München (DE)

   


(54) Microscope device


(57) Reacquisition of an image is avoided, thus improving working efficiency. Provided is a microscope device including a plurality of confocal observation units or image capturing units that are capable of acquiring images of the same sample S, a region specifying unit that specifies, on a reference image (171) acquired by a confocal observation unit or image capturing unit, an ROI (170) of an observation image to be acquired by another image capturing unit or confocal observation unit, and a field-of-view displaying unit that displays, superimposed on the reference image (171), a maximum-limit indication (F1) indicating a maximum field of view of the other image capturing unit or confocal observation unit.