In a microscope which can incline an imaging section, a height position of an observation target is automatically matched to a eucentric position. The microscope includes: a placement stage on which an observation target is placed; a lower stage lifting section that vertically movably supports the placement stage; a first driving mechanism that drives the lower stage lifting section; an imaging section that captures an image of the observation target; and an upper stage lifting section that vertically movably supports a fitting member along an optical axis and is swingable about a swinging axis orthogonal to the optical axis, wherein the first driving mechanism can drive the lower stage lifting section such that the surface of the observation target placed on the placement stage is matched to a focal position of imaging unit, or a height position of the swinging axis.

A mobile phone-based miniature microscopic image acquisition device, and image stitching and recognition methods are provided. The acquisition device comprises a support, wherein a mobile phone fixing table is provided on the support. A microscope head is provided below a camera of a mobile phone. A slide holder is provided below the microscope head, and an lighting source is provided below the slide holder. A scanning movement is performed between the slide holder and the microscope head along X and Y axes, so that images of a slide are acquired into the mobile phone. The slide sample images acquired into the mobile phone can be stitched and recognized, and can be uploaded to the cloud to be processed by cloud AI, thereby significantly improving the accuracy and efficiency of cell recognition, greatly reducing the medical cost, and ensuring more remote medical institutions can apply such technology for diagnosis.

At least some embodiments of the technology are directed to an automated slide processing apparatus configured to apply at least one reagent to a specimen carried by a microscope slide. The slide processing station can include a support element with a support surface, at least one vacuum port, and a sealing member having a non-round shape. In an uncompressed state, the scaling member can extend upwardly beyond the support surface. In a compressed state, the scaling member can be configured to maintain an airtight seal with a backside of the microscope slide as the microscope slide is pulled against the support surface by a vacuum drawn via the at least one vacuum port.

A preparation includes an image sensor, a package, and a transparent plate. The image sensor has an imaging area on a front surface. The package is electrically connected to the image sensor. The transparent plate opposes the front surface of the image sensor with a mounting medium interposed therebetween. On the surface of the transparent plate, first and second grooves are formed. The image sensor is disposed between the first and second grooves.

A microscope system includes a microscope body, an XY stage mounted on the microscope body and including a stage configured to place a slide as an observation target and move in an X-axis direction and a Y-axis direction perpendicular to each other, and an XY two-dimensional scale plate fixed to the stage. The XY two-dimensional scale plate is provided with a first mark that provides axis information in the X-axis direction throughout a movable range of the stage in the Y-axis direction and a second mark that provides axis information in the Y-axis direction throughout a movable range of the stage in the X-axis direction, which are used to recognize X- and Y-coordinates of the stage.

A computing system for dynamic forensic data capture and analysis is provided. The computing system may include a processor coupled to a memory to execute forensic analysis detection scheme using a forensic analysis agent of a client node and a forensic analysis module at a networked server node. The processor may be operable to receive a user request for a computer activity and sensed image data associated with the forensic evidence while the client node is coupled within a forensic microscope assembly that optically aligns an image sensor of the client node with the forensic evidence. The processor may also be operable to generate and send ballistic specimen data including images, video, GPS data and the like to the networked server, wherein the processor is operable to generate ballistic imaging metadata. Further, the processor may be operable to detect matching records of spent ballistics and generate a hit report thereby.

The invention relates to a eucentric digital microscope (10) that encompasses a stationary stand body (12) and a pivot unit (14) mounted pivotably on the stand body (12), the pivot unit (14) being mounted rotatably around a rotation axis (26) extending in a Y direction. The pivot unit (14) encompasses at least an optical system having an optical axis (15) extending orthogonally to the rotation axis (26), and a focal plane (92), the pivot unit (14) being arranged nondisplaceably at least in an X direction and in a Z direction relative to the rotation axis (26).

An imaging apparatus includes an imager with an imaging optical system to having an object-side hypercentric property, an illuminator with a plurality of illumination optical systems having mutually different exit pupil positions and a mover for relatively moving these with respect to a well plate. Imaging is performed simultaneously with stroboscopic illumination when the imager is located at a predetermined imaging position, and illumination optical systems are switched according to the imaging position.

An illuminator includes a light source and an illumination optical system for causing light emitted from the light source to be incident on a sample surface where an imaging object is present. The illumination optical system has an optical axis coaxial with that of an imaging optical system. An image of the light source is formed between the illumination optical system and the imaging optical system. A holder arranges the sample surface between the light source image and the imaging optical system.

An observation apparatus, an observation method, and an observation program capable of capturing an image by appropriately adjusting a focus regardless of a size of an effective range in which a distance to a cultivation container can be measured within a field of view are provided. An observation apparatus includes an imaging unit 37 that images an observation target in a field of view smaller than an accommodation part 22 at a series of imaging positions and acquires a series of partial images, a measurement unit 38 that measures a distance from the imaging unit 37 to the accommodation part 22, a storage unit 44 that stores shape information of a container 20 and a series of imaging position information, a calculation unit 45 that calculates effective range information indicating an effective range in which the measurement unit 38 is capable of performing measurement before imaging within a field of view of the imaging unit 37 at the imaging positions, based on the shape information and the imaging position information, and a control unit 40 that controls a focus of the imaging unit 37 using a measurement result measured by the measurement unit 38 in the effective range and a measurement result of the measurement unit 38 in a field of view adjacent to the field of view including the effective range in a case where the effective range is smaller than or equal to a threshold value.