Patent ID: 8072586

Claim:
System for a focused multi-planar image acquisition in a prober comprising a movement device; a clamping fixture mounted on said movement device and adapted for clamping a test object; probe needles, which can make contact with the test object; holding devices for the probe needles; a clamping plate arranged above the clamping fixture and on which the holding devices are mounted and which has a viewing aperture, which visibly exposes a surface of the test object; and an image capturing device mounted over the viewing aperture and connected to an image evaluating unit, the image capturing device comprising a microscope with an objective lens and an objective holder and provided with a lighting device to produce a light beam, directed on the surface of the test object, wherein the objective lens is provided with a microscope objective lens focusing system to focus the objective lens, independently of a vertical adjustment drive of the microscope, on the surface of the test object in a first focal plane and in a second focal plane, which is on a level with tips of the probe needle, wherein the microscope comprises a confocal microscope.