Patent ID: 7193773

Claim:
A stereomicroscopy method for generating at least a pair of representations of an object for observation by a first user and a second user, comprising: detecting radiation reflected from a surface region of the object and providing radiation data corresponding to the detected radiation, and generating a data model from the radiation data, and for each of the first user and the second user, detecting a first position of the user relative to a fixed point in a user coordinate system, determining a first location and a second location relative to the surface region of the object in the object coordinate system, generating image data for a first representation and a second representation from the data model, the first representation representing the surface region of the object viewed from the first location and the second representation representing the surface region of the object viewed from the second location, and supplying the image data to a display and displaying the first representation for a left eye of the user and displaying the second representation for a right eye of the user, and subsequently: detecting a second position of the user relative to the fixed point and, if the second position has changed as compared to the first position: displacing the first location together with the second location relative to the surface region of the object in the object coordinate system, and subsequently generating image data for a new first representation and a new second representation from the data model, the new first representation representing the surface region of the object viewed from the displaced first location and the new second representation representing the surface region of the object viewed from the displaced second location, wherein the detecting of radiation takes place between the detecting of the first position and the generating of image data for the new first representation and the new second representation, and wherein the image data for the first user and the second user are generated from the same data model.