Patent ID: 7348559

Claim:
In an inspection apparatus for measuring electrical properties of a specimen having a fine circuit line pattern a charged particle beam apparatus comprising: a plurality of probes configured to be brought into contact with the circuit line pattern to measure electric properties of the specimen; device for irradiating the specimen with a charged particle beam; image-shift device for moving a spot irradiated with the charged particle beam on the specimen; device for detecting a secondary charged particle beam generated from the specimen by irradiating the specimen with the charged particle beam to capture an image of the specimen; display device for displaying the image; input device for specifying an arbitrary location on the image; storing device for storing information on the circuit line pattern; image processing device for processing the captured image for displaying the image on said display device; and communication device for interconnecting said storing device and said image processing device, wherein said defect inspection apparatus displays the circuit line pattern and the captured image on said display device, displays information for requesting a user to specify the same location on the circuit line pattern and on the captured image, and communicates information on coordinates of a specified position between said storing device and said image processing device, and the coordinate information includes positional information of the charged particle beam on the specimen by said image-shift device.