Patent ID: 7760428

Claim:
A specimen slide unit for holding a specimen that is to be examined under a microscope or analyzed with a laboratory analysis system, the specimen slide unit comprising: a specimen slide configured to receive the specimen; a data carrier device configured to be read out and/or written on in a contact-free manner by a read/write device, the data carrier device including a radio frequency identification tag (RFID tag) configured to be read out and/or written on using Phase Jitter Modulation so as to switch a communication carrier frequency between at least a first and a second predefinable communication carrier frequency; and a signal element disposed on the specimen slide unit, the signal element activatable to emit at least one of a visual and an acoustic signal so as to assist an operator in following a predefinable processing sequence including a second specimen slide unit when the RFID tag is in a range of action of the read/write device and the specimen slide unit is next in the sequence, the signal element being at least one of a visual and an acoustic signal element.