Patent ID: 7110586

Claim:
A method using a computer-controlled microscope imaging system for acquiring and viewing magnified images of a specimen, comprising: capturing and digitizing image data from a plurality of adjacent, magnified, tiled images of a specimen and providing information to assemble and coordinate these adjacent tiled magnified images useable in formation of an overall, magnified image of a specimen at a first magnification using the computer controlled microscope; displaying a magnified overall image of the assembled and coordinated tiled images of all or a substantial portion of the specimen to a viewer; using a selector to select a point of the displayed magnified overall image for view at a higher magnification; capturing and digitizing image data for a magnified image of the selected point at a second magnification higher than the first magnification; storing the digitized image data for the overall magnified image of the specimen and for the higher magnification image of the selected point; and retrieving stored image data for the respective stored images and displaying the magnified, overall image of the specimen and the higher magnification image of the selected point at a later time.