Patent ID: 9279974
Filing Date: 2016-03-08
CPC Classification: A61B,G02B

Claim Text:
1. A microscopy method comprising: operating a microscope in a first mode using an ophthalmoscopic lens disposed in a beam path between a first object and the microscope, the first mode comprising: generating an inverted intermediate image of the first object with the ophthalmoscopic lens, imaging the intermediate image onto a left image detector with a left beam portion of an imaging beam of the microscope and imaging the intermediate image onto a right image detector with a right beam portion of the imaging beam, and supplying an image detected by the left image detector and an image detected by the right image detector through first paths of switches to electronic image inverters for inversion; displaying an inverted representation of the image detected by the left image detector on a right display, and displaying an inverted representation of the image detected by the right image detector on a left display; switching from the first mode to a second mode by both removing the ophthalmoscopic lens from the beam path without requiring movement of other optical components into or out of the beam path and switching the switches from the first paths to second paths thereby bypassing the electronic image inverters; and operating the microscope in the second mode without using the ophthalmoscopic lens, the second mode comprising: imaging a second object onto the left image detector with the left beam portion and imaging the second object onto the right image detector with the right beam portion, and displaying a representation of an image detected by the left image detector on the left display, and displaying a representation of an image detected by the right image detector on the right display.