Patent ID: 7518101

Claim:
A scanning microscope for the optic measuring of an object, comprising a lens, a light source, a displacement unit, and a scanner control unit, with the scanning microscope being adapted to emit a measuring beam from a light source that impinges the object to be measured and the measuring beam reflected by the object enters as a reflection beam through the lens into a radiation path of the microscope, and the scanner control unit with a displacement unit cooperate such that the scanner control unit controls the displacement unit via control signals such that a relative position of the object to be measured and the measuring beam are changed so that the measuring beam can be directed to at least two predetermined, locally different measuring points on the object, the scanning microscope further comprises a signal detector and a signal storage unit, with the signal detector being arranged in the radiation path of the scanning microscope such that the reflection beam is visualized on the signal detector and the signal storage unit is connected to the signal detector and is adapted to save a measuring sequence of signals of the signal detector, with the scanner control unit being connected to the signal control unit, controlling the signal storage unit such that at least one measuring sequence with two consecutive measuring signals of the signal detector are saved for each of the measuring points on the object without changing a relative position of the object to be measured and the measuring beam for the measurement of the at least two consecutive measurement signals of the measuring sequence.