Patent ID: 8411357

Claim:
A motor-operated microscope system comprising: a motor-operated microscope section including: an illumination optical system; an electric stage for placing a specimen vessel thereon and moving a desired part in the specimen vessel to an observation position; an image forming optical system having a plurality of interchangeable objective lenses of different magnifications and a single image forming lens; and image pickup means picking up an image of a specimen formed through the image forming optical system; a housing incorporating the motor-operated microscope section; a control device having a screen display and an arithmetic processing section; and software for controlling motor-operated microscopes, housed in the arithmetic processing section to display an operating condition setting screen for setting an operating condition of the motor-operated microscope section on the screen display and to control an operation of the motor-operated microscope section through the arithmetic processing section in accordance with the operating condition set through the operating condition setting screen, wherein the operating condition setting screen is constructed to have: a photographic condition setting section for setting an exposure condition with the image pickup means; a focus setting section for setting a focusing condition with each of the objective lenses; an objective interchange setting section for changeover to an objective lens of a desired magnification, of the plurality of objective lenses of different magnifications; an illumination condition setting section for setting wavelength used for illumination light and luminance of illumination light; an image pickup range setting section for setting a desired image pickup range with the image pickup means in the specimen vessel; an image displaying section displaying an image picked up by the image pickup means; and an operation commanding section for commanding the operation of the motor-operated microscope section, which are simultaneously arranged in a single window free from overlapping each other.