Patent ID: 8238524
Filing Date: 2012-08-07
Classification: G02B,H04N

Abstract:
1. A microscope color image pickup apparatus for use in a microscope, comprising: an image pickup unit capturing a color image observed by the microscope; a camera characteristic information storage unit storing camera characteristic information about a characteristic of the microscope color image pickup apparatus; a color correction parameter calculation unit calculating a color correction parameter for a color correcting process on the color image captured by the image pickup unit according to the color image captured by the image pickup unit and the camera characteristic information stored in the camera characteristic information storage unit; a color correcting unit performing a color correcting process on the color image captured by the image pickup unit according to the color correction parameter calculated by the color correction parameter calculation unit; an optical element detection unit detecting an optical element inserted into an optical path in which the illumination light travels from the illumination light source of the microscope to the image pickup unit on a basis of the color image captured by the image pickup unit and the camera characteristic information stored in the camera characteristic information storage unit; and a color correction parameter storage unit storing a plurality of color correction parameters calculated by the color correction parameter calculation unit, wherein the color correcting unit acquires, from the color correction parameter storage unit, the color correction parameter corresponding to the optical element detected by the optical element detection unit, and performs the color correcting process on the color image captured by the image pickup unit using the acquired color correction parameter.