Patent ID: 7949161

Claim:
A microscope system, comprising: an obtainment unit for obtaining microscopic images in a time series obtained by picking up images of discretionary portions of a specimen and also obtaining microscope information which is correlated with each of the microscopic images and which indicates an observation state of a microscope when each respective microscopic image has been picked up; and an image synthesis unit for synthesizing the microscopic images in a time series obtained by picking up the images of the discretionary portions based on position information which is included in the microscope information and which indicate positions of the specimen when each respective microscopic image has been picked up, thereby synthesizing a wide view image that is wider than each individual microscopic image; wherein the image synthesis unit comprises: a calculation unit for calculating a size of an outer circumference frame of the wide view image based on the position information correlated with each of the microscopic images in a time series obtained by picking up images of the discretionary portions; and an image placement unit for placing each of the microscopic images in a time series within the outer circumference frame based on the position information correlated with each respective microscopic image.