Patent ID: 7205519

Claim:
A confocal microscope display device comprising: a confocal scanner for scanning a sample with shifting a focal position of a light beam in a direction perpendicular to an optical axis; a moving mechanism for moving the focal position of the light beam in an optical axis direction; a camera for picking up an image of the sample with the light beam, the camera synchronizing with a plurality of pulses of a vertical synchronizing signal; a movement control unit for controlling the moving mechanism to move the focal position of the light beam by a predetermined different distance in the optical axis direction for each vertical synchronizing signal of the camera in synchronization with the vertical synchronizing signal; and a processing portion for reading the slice images of the sample obtained from the confocal scanner, to display the slice images on a screen, wherein while measuring the sample, the processing portion displays two or more slice images in such an arrangement on a common screen that positions of said slice images relative to the sample are enabled to be grasped.