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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To transmit write light or read light for read/write of a first recording layer 3 without decreasing thickness of a second recording layer 5 disposed in a side where the write light or the read light is incident in an optical recording medium having at least two recording layers. SOLUTION: An optical recording medium having at least two recording layers includes a first recording layer 3; a second recording layer 5 disposed at a side, at which write light or read light is incident, than the first recording layer 3 with an intermediate layer 4 being interposed between the recording layers; and a dielectric layer 7 between the intermediate layer 4 and the second recording layer 5, which makes higher the transmittance of light transmitted through the second recording layer with increase in incident angle of the light. COPYRIGHT: (C)2007,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an optical pickup having a phase-modulating liquid crystal element which can perform a desired aberration correction even if the thickness of a liquid crystal layer is different from a designed thickness due to a change of environmental temperature, an error in production of liquid crystal elements, or the like. SOLUTION: Signal voltages VS1, VS2 and VS3 which drive a phase-modulating device mounted on an optical pickup are generated as follows. Firstly, a VSamp is generated in accordance with an aberration correction value, and a first signal voltage VS1 and a second signal voltage VS2 are generated from a reference driving signal VS0 and the VSamp. Then, a VSoffset is generated so that it may be equal to a third signal voltage VS3 when an equation ¾VS2¾=¾VS1¾ is established, and the third signal voltage VS3 is generated from the VS1, k (a constant), the VSamp and the VSoffset. COPYRIGHT: (C)2006,JPO&NCIPI
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To stably initialize each recording layer in an optical recording medium having a plurality of recording layers while stabilizing an initialization condition without having an adverse effect on the other recording layers. SOLUTION: A ring-shaped laser flux 200 is converged on a recording layer L0 of the optical recording medium 10 by an objective lens 4 to initialize a recording material. In that case, since reflected light from a recording layer L1 is dispersed because all the ring-shaped laser flux 200 is made incident on the recording layer L0 obliquely, the adverse effects made by the reflected light on the initialization condition is almost eliminated. In addition, in the case of converging the ring-shaped light flux 200 on the recording layer L1 to perform initialization, an adverse effect is eliminated in a similar manner because heat escapes to the outer and inner sides of the laser flux 200, so that the recording layer L0 can not reach initialization temperature, even though the ring-shaped laser flux 200 passes through the recording layer L0. COPYRIGHT: (C)2006,JPO&NCIPI
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an image acquisition device and an image acquisition method capable of efficiently photograph a biological sample having a fluorescent marker.SOLUTION: The image acquisition device includes: a light source that generates an excitation light for causing a fluorescent marker on a biological sample to emit light; an imaging element for focusing an image; an optical system that irradiates at least a part of a region including the fluorescent marker on the biological sample with the excitation light from the light source and focuses a fluorescent image of the region on the imaging element; a movement control section that controls the optical system to move the focus point in an optical axis direction of the optical system and in a direction perpendicular to the optical axis; a generation section that exposes the imaging element continuously during the movement of the focus point of the optical system to generate a long-time exposure image of the region; and a calculation section that analyzes the frequency of the generated long-time exposure image to calculate a piece of positional information in the optical axis direction of the fluorescent marker using at least the analysis result.
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an image acquisition device which allows an organism sample with a fluorescent label attached to be efficiently imaged, an image acquisition method and an image acquisition program.SOLUTION: The image acquisition device includes a light source, an optical system, an imaging element, a movement control unit and a data processing unit. The light source irradiates an organism sample with a fluorescent label attached with excitation light for the fluorescent label. The optical system includes an object lens for magnifying an imaging object of the organism sample. An image of the imaging object magnified by the object lens is formed on the imaging element. The movement control unit moves a focal position of the optical system within in an imaging range including at least a range of the thickness of the imaging object. The data processing unit acquires a fluorescent image of the organism sample by exposing the imaging element while the focal position is moved within the imaging range, and calculates distribution information of the fluorescent label in the thickness direction of the imaging object on the basis of the fluorescent image.
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a focal position information detector, a microscope device and a focal position information detection method which enable accurate detection of focal position information.SOLUTION: A focal position information detector 1 includes an image sensor 2, a stage 4, a light source 6, a light source control section 9, and a focal position information acquisition section 10. The image sensor 2 includes plural pixel lines and operates in a rolling shutter mode. The stage 4 faces the image sensor 2 via a microscopic optical system 3 and is movable in the optical axis direction of the microscopic optical system 3. The light source 6 lights the stage 4. The light source control section 9 makes the light source 6 emit light intermittently at an interval longer than light reception time of the pixel lines. The focal position information acquisition section 10 acquires focal position information on the microscopic optical system 3 based on an image imaged by the image sensor 2 while moving the stage 4.
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an image processing apparatus capable of detecting a depth position of a target in a sample without requiring a large-capacity memory.SOLUTION: An image processing apparatus 20 exposes an imaging element 30 while moving a stage 11 in a Z-direction to obtain a first image of a sample SPL including a first bright point representing a fluorescent marker M; and exposes the imaging element 30 while moving the stage 11 at a first constant speed in the Z-direction as well as in an X-direction at a second constant speed to obtain a second image including a second bright point representing the fluorescent marker M. A distance D between a first bright point and a second bright point within a composite image of the first image and the second image is calculated; and thus, a height h of the fluorescent marker M in the sample SPL is calculated based on the distance D and the first speed and the second speed.
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a chromatic aberration measuring method, capable of efficiently measuring the chromatic aberration. SOLUTION: An image of light of each wavelength is reflected in the fluorescent sample image with an inclination conforming to a difference in the chromatic aberration by moving relative positions of a fluorescent sample SPE and an image sensor 30 while the focal point of an objective lens 12 is moved in the direction of the optical axis so that the moving directions may be varied in a surface direction intersecting the moving direction of the focal point at right angles to acquire a fluorescent sample image by making the image sensor 30 exposed in the meantime, thereby a microscope device 1 can measure the chromatic aberration, based on this inclination. Accordingly, the number of sheets of the fluorescent sample images can be lessened in comparison with that of conventional ones. Consequently, an imaging time can be shortened and thus the chromatic aberration can be measured efficiently. COPYRIGHT: (C)2011,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To obtain the image of a fluorescent-stained biological sample, without degrading image quality. SOLUTION: Exciting light for making a fluorescent material marked on a target in a biological sample SPL lie in a non-excited state and for making a fluorescent material marked on a control with the probe lie in an excited state is emitted from an exciting light source 51, to take the image of the entire slide glass SG including the biological sample SPL as a dark field thumbnail image by a thumbnail camera 14, so that the dark field thumbnail image including the entire fluorescent-stained biological sample SPL can be obtained without degrading the image quality. COPYRIGHT: (C)2011,JPO&INPIT