Still-picture acquisition method and apparatus applied to...

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2004-10-08

2010-12-07

Diep, Nhon T (Department: 2621)

Television

Special applications

Microscope

C348S074000, C348S086000

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RE041984

ABSTRACT:
A still-picture acquisition section in a computer selects a brightness-periodically-varying portion of image data of a living cell like a cardiac cell, as a sample, which makes a self-ordered periodic motion, monitors a change in brightness, generates a trigger signal at the timing at which the value of the brightness exceeds a specific threshold value, causes a camera body to repeatedly pick up the image of the living cell after a predetermined delay time, and then averages the picked-up images. This makes it possible to acquire as high-quality still pictures the instantaneous status of a living cell which varies with time in accordance with the application of external stimulation or the in-vivo order.

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Japanese Office Action dated Jun. 16, 2009 (2 pages), and English translation thereof (2 pages), issued in counterpart Japanese Appliation Serial No. 11-080027.

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