Patent ID: 8982457
Filing Date: 2015-03-17
Classification: G02B

Abstract:
1. A microscope system comprising: a stage on which a specimen is placed; an objective lens that converges observation light from at least the specimen on the stage; a bright-field illumination unit configured to emit bright-field illumination light that is illumination light applied to the specimen for a bright-field observation; a dark-field illumination unit configured to emit dark-field illumination light that is illumination light applied to the specimen for a dark-field observation; an illumination intensity control unit configured to adjust an illumination intensity of one of the bright-field illumination light and the dark-field illumination light based on an illumination intensity of the other of the bright-field illumination light and the dark-field illumination light; and a control unit configured to execute a simultaneous irradiation process by controlling the bright-field illumination unit and the dark-field illumination unit to simultaneously emit the adjusted bright-field illumination light and the adjusted dark-field illumination light, respectively, after the illumination intensity has been adjusted by the illumination intensity control unit.