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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8179575 | Chromatic registration for biological sample imaging Systems and techniques for chromatic distortion reduction. Relative chromatic distortion information for an imaging system may be obtained, where the relative chromatic distortion information indicates relative displacement of a first color signal and a second color... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8125709 | Illumination device, in particular for microscopes The present invention is directed to a controllable microscope illumination within a microscope system by which all essential contrasting methods in microscopy can be realized. The illumination device according to the invention comprises a plurality of individual li... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8125708 | Lens changer for a stereomicroscope An objective changer for a telescope-type stereomicroscope which has two telescope systems whose entrance-side beam paths are oriented parallel to one another, which includes a carrier and an objective holder which is held at the carrier so as to be movable relative... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8120771 | Configuration of a laser scanning microscope for raster image correlation spectroscopy measurement and method for conducting and evaluating such a measurement By means of an improved configuration method, mathematical transport models can be fitted to correlations determined by means of scanning fluorescence spectroscopy with few errors. With improved methods for carrying out or evaluating a raster image correlation spect... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8116543 | System for and method of intelligently directed segmentation analysis for automated microscope systems The present disclosure includes systems and techniques relating to intelligently directed segmentation analysis for automated microscope systems. In general, in one implementation, the technique includes obtaining an image of at least a portion of a scan region incl... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8115164 | Calibration device and laser scanning microscope with such a calibration device A calibration device for managing a variety of performance tests and/or calibration tasks in a laser scanning microscope. The calibration device, which has focusing optics and a test structure arranged in the focal plane of the focusing optics, with structural eleme... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8111456 | Stage drive for microscopes A stage drive for moving a microscope stage designed as a mechanical stage including a first drive element linked to a first output element, and a second drive element, which is linked to a second output element. Through first and second transmission elements, the f... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8111396 | Spectrometric measurement system and method for compensating for veiling glare The present solution is directed to a measuring system and a method for determining spectrometric measurement results with high accuracy. The spectrometric measuring system, comprises a radiation source, an entrance slit, a dispersion element, and a detector with de... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8102526 | Spectrometer with a slit for incident light and fabrication of the slit A spectrometer including an entrance slit and the production of the entrance slit. The spectrometer includes a housing, an entrance slit, and an imaging diffraction grating inside the housing for splitting and imaging the light onto an optoelectric detector. The det... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8098374 | Highly sensitive spectroscopic unit The invention is directed to a highly sensitive spectrum analysis unit with a diffraction grating, wherein a parallel light bundle having a wavelength range impinges on a diffraction grating which splits the different wavelengths into spectra by diffraction in first... | 01/17/2012 |
| 8097865 | Multispectral illuminaton device An illumination device includes at least four semiconductor radiation sources (18) for emitting optical radiation in respectively different emission wavelength ranges. At least one color splitter (22.1, 22.2, 22.3), which is reflective for optical radi... | 01/17/2012 |
| 8077413 | Adjustable pinhole for a laser scanning microscope An adjustable pinhole, in particular for a beam path for illumination and/or detection in a laser-scanning microscope. The pinhole consists of at least two planar basic modules, which have frame-like joints, on which at least one blade is arranged in a displaceable ... | 12/13/2011 |
| 8040598 | Microscope for observing a sample in the bright field illumination by transmitted light or in fluorescence-contrast epi-illumination A microscope for observing an object selectably using the bright-field transmitted light contrast procedure or the incident-light fluorescence contrast procedure. During the bright-field transmitted light contrast procedure, an illumination beam path is directed fro... | 10/18/2011 |
| 8036868 | Intergrated systems and methods of virtual or live microscope slide presentation A method for creating a virtual slide is provided. A virtual slide is a digital representation of an area of interest of a microscopic slide. One method is to use a motorized microscope that can move a specimen with respect to a microscopic objective. With such a sy... | 10/11/2011 |
| 8013288 | Method for correcting a control of an optical scanner and the optical scanner In a method for correcting a control of an optical scanner (14) which has a beam deflecting element (31) for deflecting a beam of optical radiation and a drive unit (30, 30′) for moving the beam deflecting element (31), said drive unit ... | 09/06/2011 |
| 8004757 | Safety system for a laser radiation device A laser radiation-guiding device including: a laser including a control unit; ports for connection of one module each, it being possible that laser radiation may exit at the ports. The device further can include joining part sensors respectively assigned to a port a... | 08/23/2011 |
| 8000511 | System for and method of focusing in automated microscope systems The present disclosure includes systems and techniques relating to focusing in automated microscope systems. In general, in one implementation, the technique includes obtaining an image of at least a portion of a scan region, analyzing the image to find an area in t... | 08/16/2011 |
| 7999238 | Arrangement for processing signals at the output of a multichannel detector An arrangement for signal processing at the output of a multichannel detector in the spectrally resolved acquisition of time-variable fluorescence phenomena in a microscope, particularly lifetime measurements, is characterized in that an FPGA (free programmable gate... | 08/16/2011 |
| D639324 | Microscope | 06/07/2011 |
| 7933083 | Diaphragm device A diaphragm device with which individual wavelengths or ranges of wavelengths in the path of a beam of spectrally dispersed light can be suppressed. Such a diaphragm device comprises at least one array of diaphragms, wherein the individual diaphragms of the array ar... | 04/26/2011 |
| 7929824 | Optical image recording and image evaluation system An optical image recordation and image evaluation system has an imaging beam path and at least two digital cameras and a beam splitter. The beam splitter splits the light of the imaging beam path and conducts the same to respective digital cameras. The start time po... | 04/19/2011 |
| 7923672 | Process and devices for optically sensing a specimen with a large depth of field A device for optically sensing a specimen with a large depth of field has a lighting module which illuminates a zone of the specimen during a predetermined measurement period with a pattern whose phase is modified in time during the measurement period, generating a ... | 04/12/2011 |
| 7916916 | System and method for remote navigation of a specimen A method of providing remote navigation of a specimen includes receiving a command to remotely control a microscope and a camera coupled with the microscope to view a portion of a specimen disposed on the microscope, capturing a digital image of the portion with the... | 03/29/2011 |
| 7916913 | System and method for reconstructing a diagnostic trajectory A system and method for reconstructing a diagnostic trajectory. ... | 03/29/2011 |
| 7907348 | Microscope objective The invention relates to a microscope objective with preferably anti-symmetric lenses or lens groups with an optical magnification of −100 and a visual field factor of 20. According to the invention the microscope objective consists of 9 lenses with 3 cemen... | 03/15/2011 |
| 7888628 | Optical zoom system for a light scanning microscope For a confocal scanning microscope (1) an optical zoom system (41) with linear scanning is provided, which not only makes a zoom function possible, in that a variable magnification of an image is possible, but rather which additionally produces a pupil... | 02/15/2011 |
| 7848018 | Automatic microscope provided with an illumination field arranged in the aperture diaphragm plane of a condenser In an automatic microscope, there is the task to satisfy the demand for an economical, compact structure, especially a miniaturization as an essential aspect. The automatic microscope contains an optical system having the following: an illumination field (1) ... | 12/07/2010 |
| 7876948 | System for creating microscopic digital montage images An imaging apparatus. The imaging apparatus may find an area in which a specimen is present, then focus on the specimen and capture images of the specimen during continuous stage motion. ... | 01/25/2011 |
| 7873193 | Serial section analysis for computer-controlled microscopic imaging Automated projection of serial section images in microscopic imaging systems. A computer-controlled microscope that is connected electrically to a controller that has a display device. A batch of serial section slides includes a series of serial section slides, each... | 01/18/2011 |
| 7872799 | Device for controlling light radiation Device for controlling light radiation, which is excited in a specimen and/or which is backscattered and/or reflected and which contains one or more wavelengths, at a plurality of light outlets, wherein a separation of the light radiation into differently polarized ... | 01/18/2011 |
| 7869641 | System and method for finding regions of interest for microscopic digital montage imaging A system for determining tissue locations on a slide. ... | 01/11/2011 |
| 7869123 | Laser scanning microscope with high-speed data processing Specimen laser-scanning microscope with raster scanning illumination and detector modules, which illuminates and detects a specimen by raster scanning. A real-time control device (device) performs synchronous reading-out with the raster scanning pixel cycle. A data ... | 01/11/2011 |
| 7859673 | Method and arrangement for detecting light signals A method for detecting and analyzing light signals, in which a light signal impinges an optoelectric converter, where it is converted into an electric signal and the electric signal subsequent to the conversion is distributed into several analysis channels (13.1 | 12/28/2010 |
| 7852474 | Spectral analysis unit with a diffraction grating A spectral analytical unit for acting on a parallel light bundle having different wavelengths. The spectral analytical unit includes a diffraction grating on which the light bundle falls, the diffraction grating splitting the different wavelengths through diffractio... | 12/14/2010 |
| 7835075 | Replacement device for microscopes A changing device for receiving optical elements, particularly for microscopes, has a stand comprising a side wall, front wall and rear wall. This changing device is arranged at a holder in the telecentric part of the microscope beam path and is outfitted with a qua... | 11/16/2010 |
| 7832894 | Illuminating device for microscopes The invention relates to an illuminating device for microscopes, wherein the light source has, in particular, a white light illumination having total daylight spectrum and/or an excitation light source for fluorescent colors. The inventive illuminating device for a ... | 11/16/2010 |
| 7801390 | Apparatus and method for labeling rows and columns in an irregular array The apparatus and method of the invention provide for assigning coordinates to samples in an array. The method is based on a hierarchical pattern matching to a local lattice structure that is used as a template. Starting from the best local match, the pattern is exp... | 09/21/2010 |
| 7800848 | Temperable lens, especially for microscopes The invention is directed to a temperature-controllable objective, particularly for microscopes and other optical equipment, which comprises a main barrel as the main component part of the objective. The main barrel contains at least one correction mount, cylinder s... | 09/21/2010 |
| 7796328 | Laser scanning microscope with illumination perpendicular to the optical axis Arrangement for microscopic observation and/or detection of a sample that is at least partially transparent by way of a microscope objective, whereby an illumination of the sample outside the objective is carried out from at least from one side at an angle to the op... | 09/14/2010 |
| 7796149 | Method for scanner control in at least one scan axis in a laser scanning microscope Method for scanner control in at least one scan axis in a laser scanning microscope, the scan field being divided into partial area, a first image of at least one partial area produced by a forward scan being compared with a second image of the partial area produced... | 09/14/2010 |
