Patent ID: 8922639

Claim:
A microscope system for driving each of electrically-driven units included in a microscope device to observe a sample, comprising: a zoom optical system configured by at least one lens and capable of carrying out zooming over the sample; a zoom driving unit for moving the zoom optical system along an optical axis; an imaging unit for imaging an observation image of the sample through the zoom optical system, thereby generating image data on the sample; a display unit for displaying an image corresponding to the image data generated by the imaging unit; a touch panel provided on a display screen of the display unit for accepting an input corresponding to a contact position of an object from an outside; and a driving control unit for outputting, to the zoom driving unit, a driving signal for changing a zoom magnification of the zoom optical system by setting a middle point between contact positions on the touch panel corresponding to two position signals in response to an input of the different contact positions as a zoom center position fixed without depending on a zoom magnification of the zoom optical system when the two position signals are output from the touch panel.