Patent ID: 9568724
Date: 2017-02-14
CPC Classifications: G02B

Claim:
1. A microscope with an objective, which has a focal plane lying in a sample space, and an autofocus device having: a light modulator which is designed for generating a luminous modulation object that is intensity-modulated periodically along one direction and for additionally generating a luminous comparison object which extends along the direction of the modulation object, an autofocus illumination optical unit which images the modulation object and the comparison object such that an image of the modulation object and an image of the comparison object are formed in the sample space, an autofocus camera, an autofocus imaging optical unit which images the image of the modulation object and the image of the comparison object both formed in the sample space onto the autofocus camera, a control device which receives signals of the autofocus camera and is designed: