Digital microscope

An early digital microscope was made by a company in Tokyo, Japan in 1986, which is now known as Hirox Co. LTD.[1] It included a control box and a lens connected to a computer.

This system also was much more compacted than previous models with a reduction in the number of cables and physical size of the unit itself.

Instead the magnification for a digital microscope was originally determined by how many times larger the sample was reproduced on a 15” monitor.

As a result, magnification numbers and field of view are still the same as that original definition, regardless of the size of the monitor used.

Attaching a CCD camera to a stereo microscope will result in an image that has compromises made for the eyepiece.

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The approximate pixel resolution can be determined by dividing the horizontal field of view (FOV) by 1600.

The Pixel Shift Method uses an actuator to physically move the CCD in order to take multiple overlapping images.

From these 3D model measurements can be made, but their accuracy is based on the step motor and depth of field of the lens.

2D and 3D tiling, also known as stitching or creating a panoramic, can now be done with the more advanced digital microscope systems.

Many of the simpler units which connect to a computer use standard operating system facilities, and do not require device-specific drivers.

Basic operation may be possible with software included as part of computer operating systems—in Windows XP, images from microscopes which do not require special drivers can be viewed and recorded from "Scanners and Cameras" in Control Panel.

Systems with a lower number of pixels have a higher frame rate (30fps to 100fps) and faster processing.