Patent ID: 8106943

Claim:
A microscope image pickup system having a microscope apparatus enabled to change an observation state by driving one or more optical members, comprising: an image pickup unit for picking up an image of an observation object; an image process unit for applying an image process to an image picked up by the image pickup unit; an input unit for inputting a process factor of the image process unit; a display unit for displaying an image to which an image process is applied by the image process unit based on the process factor input from the input unit; an observation state detection/setup unit for detecting and setting an observation state of the microscope apparatus; and an image pickup condition detection/setup unit for detecting and setting an image pickup condition of the image pickup unit, wherein an observation state of the microscope apparatus and/or an image pickup condition of the image pickup unit are set up and an image is picked up so as to pick up an image of an image quality being equal to, or better than, that of an image to which an image process is applied on the basis of the process factor input from the input unit.