Patent ID: 9060684
Filing Date: 2015-06-23
Classification: A61B,C12M,G01N,G02B,H04N

Abstract:
1. A non-transitory tangible machine-readable medium storing an observation program for causing a computer to execute processing, the processing comprising: overall image sensing processing for taking an image of a sample through taking an image of an entire container containing the sample and a solution; sample mass discrimination processing for discriminating from the image taken in the overall image sensing processing a sample mass, which is a mass of a plurality of pieces of the sample; coordinate detection processing for detecting coordinates of a center of the sample mass discriminated in the sample mass discrimination processing; magnified image sensing processing for taking an image of the sample mass on a magnified scale about, as a center, the coordinates detected in the coordinate detection processing; and time keeping processing for counting days and hours from a start of observation of the sample, wherein in the sample mass discrimination processing, discrimination of the magnified observation target sample mass is repeated every predetermined period counted in the time keeping processing with respect to sample mass discrimination until, from the image taken in the overall image sensing processing. any of sample masses, which are each a mass of a plurality of pieces of the sample, is recognized as a magnified observation target sample mass having a size equal to or larger than a predetermined size, and the discrimination of the magnified observation target sample mass is stopped on condition that a predetermined number of days have elapsed, and in the coordinate detection processing, on condition that a magnified observation target sample mass having a size equal to or larger than the predetermined size has been recognized in the sample mass discrimination processing, coordinates of a center of the magnified observation target sample mass are detected.