Patent ID: 8094914

Claim:
A microscope system having a microscope and an imaging apparatus that images a specimen on a stage of the microscope to produce a newly imaged specimen, the system comprising: an acquiring section that acquires identification information of the specimen on the stage; a storage section that stores a macro image and a micro image of the specimen that is imaged by the imaging apparatus in a correlated manner with the identification information of the specimen acquired by the acquiring section; an additional storing section that automatically judges whether or not the specimen is a registered specimen already stored in the storage section based on the identification information of the specimen, and additionally stores in the storage section when the specimen is judged as the registered specimen a micro image of the newly imaged specimen by the imaging apparatus in a correlated manner with the macro image of the registered specimen; a first display section that displays the macro image of the specimen; a second display section that displays the micro image of the specimen; and a display control section that performs display control of the first display section and the second display section, wherein the display control section judges whether the specimen is a new specimen or a registered specimen for which the micro image correlated with the macro image is already stored in the storage section based on the identification information of the specimen acquired by the acquiring section, and when the specimen is judged as a new specimen, the display control section displays the macro image of the specimen imaged by the imaging apparatus on the first display section and displays a micro image correlated with the macro image of the specimen displayed on the first display section on the second display section; and when the specimen is judged as the registered specimen, the display control section reads the macro image of the specimen stored in the storage section and displays the macro image on the first display section, and switches the micro image displayed on the second display section to either the micro image correlated with the macro image of the specimen stored in the storage section or the micro image of the specimen being imaged by the imaging apparatus.