US 11,698,519 B2
Image acquisition device and image acquisition method
Akira Takahashi, Hamamatsu (JP); Takayuki Kawashima, Hamamatsu (JP); and Jinichi Susuki, Hamamatsu (JP)
Assigned to HAMAMATSU PHOTONICS K.K., Hamamatsu (JP)
Filed by HAMAMATSU PHOTONICS K.K., Hamamatsu (JP)
Filed on Jan. 6, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/570,245.
Application 17/570,245 is a continuation of application No. 16/637,543, granted, now 11,280,991, previously published as PCT/JP2018/020375, filed on May 28, 2018.
Claims priority of application No. 2017-167294 (JP), filed on Aug. 31, 2017.
Prior Publication US 2022/0128807 A1, Apr. 28, 2022
Int. Cl. G02B 21/06 (2006.01); G02B 21/26 (2006.01); G02B 21/36 (2006.01)
CPC G02B 21/06 (2013.01) [G02B 21/26 (2013.01); G02B 21/367 (2013.01)] 14 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A device comprising:
a stage configured to hold a sample;
a light source configured to emit instantaneous light;
an objective lens disposed to face the sample on the stage;
a driver configured to move the sample in a scanning direction intersecting an optical axis of the objective lens at a predetermined speed;
a computer configured to set a plurality of lanes in an image acquisition region of the sample; and
an image sensor configured to capture an image of the sample in respective lanes by lane scanning and to acquire a plurality of tile images;
wherein the computer is configured to determine whether or not, the lane scanning with respect to the lane that acquired the tile images is re-executed, and wherein the computer is configured to re-execute the lane scanning based on a determination result.