Patent ID: 11867496
Assignee: EVIDENT CORPORATION
Field: Measurement (Instruments)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 13:
14. A measurement support method, including:
repetitively measuring a surface of a specimen without changing a setting of a measurement instrument, the measurement instrument comprising an objective lens; and
evaluating an appropriateness of the setting for measuring a surface texture of the specimen, based on a comparison between a measurement value of the surface texture of the specimen calculated from a measurement data item output from the measurement instrument, and a degree of variation in measurement by the measurement instrument calculated from a plurality of measurement data items output from the measurement instrument,
wherein the setting includes a setting of the objective lens, and
wherein the evaluating the appropriateness of the setting includes evaluating an appropriateness of the objective lens for the surface texture of the specimen, based on the measurement value of the surface texture of the specimen, the degree of variation in measurement by the measurement instrument, and a measurement mode indicating a priority degree of measurement precision over a measurement speed.