Patent ID: 7426345

Claim:
A slide photograph data creation system, comprising: digital photography means provided in a microscope, for photographing high-magnification photographs of samples; sample transport means for holding and transporting said samples three-dimensionally; photography control means for controlling said digital photography means to photograph a plurality of said high-magnification photographs with a predetermined interval, and for controlling said sample transport means to successively move said samples perpendicularly to an optical axis of said microscope to provide a margin where one of said photographs partly overlaps with another of said photographs, said sample transport means also moving the sample minutely along the optical axis of said microscope in each of locations where the sample is moved perpendicular to the optical axis, to thereby obtain the three-dimensional high-magnification photographs; pasting information generation means for recognizing said margin by photograph processing from said plurality of high-magnification photographs, and for generating pasting information of said plurality of high-magnification photographs; external digital camera means for photographing an entire image of said samples, different from the digital photography means, and photograph file generation means for storing in one file said entire image of said samples, said plurality of high-magnification photographs and said pasting-together information.