Patent ID: 8786693

Claim:
A microscope system, comprising: an accommodation unit capable of accommodating a plurality of specimens; a stage on which each of the specimens loaded from the accommodation unit is placed; an optical system including a lens for spherical aberration correction; an image pickup unit capable of capturing a partial image of each of the specimens placed on the stage, via the optical system; a movement mechanism to move the lens for spherical aberration correction along an optical axis; a control unit to control movement of the lens for spherical aberration correction by the movement mechanism and correct spherical aberration; an image processing unit to combine the partial images captured by the image pickup unit and generate a composite image; a display unit to display the generated composite image; a microscope tube including the optical system; a movement unit to move at least one of the microscope tube and the stage along the optical axis; and a distance measurement unit, wherein the control unit calculates a first distance between an upper surface of each of the specimens and a focus position of the optical system, and controls the movement mechanism to move the lens for spherical aberration correction in accordance with the first distance, wherein the distance measurement unit measures a second distance between a predetermined position on a microscope tube side and the upper surface of each of the specimens, and wherein the control unit executes focusing by controlling the movement unit and calculates the first distance based on information of the second distance obtained from the distance measurement unit at a time when focus is obtained.