Patent ID: 9625696
Date: 2017-04-18
CPC Classifications: G02B

Claim:
1. A laser microscope comprising: a light irradiating portion that irradiates a specimen with laser light; a light detecting portion that detects light from the specimen irradiated with the laser light by the light irradiating portion and that outputs an intensity signal; an information converting portion that converts the intensity signal output from the light detecting portion to brightness information at each pixel; a full-scale setting portion that can set, in the information converting portion, a normal full scale that is smaller than the intensity signal of the light from the specimen when given a light stimulus and an expanded full scale that is larger than the normal full scale, as a maximum range of the intensity signal that can be converted to brightness information by the information converting portion; a switching determination portion that determines whether to switch between a normal observation mode in which the brightness information of the specimen when the light stimulus is not given thereto is obtained and a stimulation observation mode in which the brightness information of the specimen when the light stimulus is given thereto is obtained; and a setting control portion that controls the full-scale setting portion based on a result of the determination by the switching determination portion so that the normal full scale is set in the normal observation mode, and the expanded full scale is set in the stimulation observation mode.