Patent ID: 7120281

Claim:
A method for the observation of dynamic processes, comprises the steps of: providing a microscope system with a processing unit associated with a detector; controlling image capture of said dynamic processes in the microscope system with a computer; acquiring and generating a plurality of image frames from a scene periodically; processing image frames from a scene generated by the microscope with the computer; storing the plurality of acquired image frames of the scene in a buffer memory; conveying at least two successive subregions of successive image frames of the scene to a comparator; and segmenting of the image frames of the scene into sequences of sub-image frames in accordance with their image content; wherein the scene is comprised of a group of image frames acquired repeatedly from the same individual points; and, wherein in the case of successive image frames in which almost no change in the image content occurs, a greater compression, by way of coding and blanking of data, is performed prior to transfer to the computer than in successive image frames in which more change occurs.