Image processing system for use with a microscope employing a digital camera

Claim 1

An image processing system for use with a microscope employing a portable digital camera, wherein the portable digital camera includes a memory card for storing an image observed by the microscope, and transfers the observed image to an external display device, the system comprising: a frame on which the portable digital camera is seated; and a fixing device for connecting said frame to a connector of the microscope so that the image from the microscope can be taken by the portable digital camera; wherein the fixing device extends vertically below the frame to the connector, and includes a magnifying lens, a spherical aberration correcting lens, and a chromatic aberration correcting lens which are sequentially arranged from the frame toward the connector, and wherein the magnifying lens magnifies an image enlarged by objectives within a tube of the microscope and comprises a widen view lens which can make a view angle of the image from the objectives widen and has a predetermined magnification such that the image taken by the portable digital camera is equal in magnification to an image viewed through an eyepiece of the microscope, the spherical aberration correcting lens corrects a spherical aberration caused by a lens contained in the portable digital camera and the chromatic aberration correcting lens corrects a chromatic aberration of an image incident on the lens of the portable digital camera that passes through the objectives of the microscope.