Patent ID: 8345093
Filing Date: 2013-01-01
Classification: G06K,H04N

Abstract:
1. A method for adjusting a lightness of an image obtained by a microscope, the method comprising: obtaining, by a microscope unit that comprises the microscope, an image of a specimen; calculating, by a control unit, a lightness as an evaluation value; distinguishing, by the control unit, an observation pixel which is an observation target in the image from a non-observation pixel which is not an observation target, based on the evaluation value and a lightness of each pixel of the image; determining, by the control unit, a representative value for representing the lightness of the image based on a lightness of a selection pixel which has been identified as the observation pixel; and giving, by the control unit, an instruction to change an intensity of a light source of the microscope unit so as to bring the representative value close to a predetermined lightness, and adjusting, by the microscope unit, the intensity of the light source in accordance with the instruction from the control unit to adjust the lightness of the image.