Patent ID: 7006675

Claim:
A method for controlling analytical and adjustment operations of a microscope, comprising the following steps: depicting a data set in graphical form on a display associated with the microscope; selecting at least one position in the graphical form of the data set that depicts an image of the specimen; identifying automatically a region from the data set and the selected position; selecting an adjustment function for execution of an adjustment operation, wherein the adjustment operation modifies at least one image sensing parameter and the image sensing pararmeters consist essentially of zoom, image centering, detection sensitivity, illuminating light output, spectral composition of the illumination, polarization of the illumination, spectral detection of the identified region, and rotation of the identified region; and performing an analytical or adjustment operation or both on a structure of interest, wherein the analytical operation is based on the geometry of the structure of interest or on the data set of the structure of interest determined by means of pattern recognition.