Patent ID: 8830574

Claim:
An automated microscope slide analysis system for viewing or imaging microscope slides, said system comprising: one or more microscope slides each having one or more electronically-addressable reference position tag(s) thereon; a field objective operatively configured to allow viewing or imaging of a defined field on said microscope slide; an emitter operatively configured to emit an electromagnetic wave toward at least one of said electronically-addressable reference position tag(s); a detector operatively configured to detect said position tag from response of said position tag to said electromagnetic wave; and a processor configured for processing information from said detector and said field objective to determine a position of a field viewed or desired to be marked with respect to at least one of the said electronically-addressable position tag(s), and to cause writing of said position of said field desired to be marked in response to said reference position tag in electronic data memory associated with said slide.