Patent ID: 7848018

Claim:
An automatic microscope for examining a specimen, the automatic microscope defining an optical axis and comprising: an optical system including an illuminating field for illuminating the specimen; said optical system further including a condenser mounted along said optical axis downstream of said illuminating field; said condenser defining an aperture diaphragm plane; said illuminating field being disposed at least approximately in said diaphragm plane; said optical system further including an imaging optic mounted downstream of said condenser and defining an image plane; an image-providing sensor mounted in said image plane; an evaluation and control computer; a light-source control unit for controlling at least one of the brightness and color temperature of said illuminating field; said light-source control unit being connected to said evaluation and control computer; said illuminating field comprising a plurality of individual semiconductor components emitting at respectively different wavelengths; said light-source control unit functioning to drive said semiconductors individually or in groups of the same type thereby adjusting at least one of the brightness and color temperature of said illuminating field; and, a microlens array for adapting said illumination field to the specimen to be illuminated.