Patent ID: 8351115

Claim:
A complex type microscopic device comprising: a slider unit which moves, along a horizontal plane, a stage on which a sample is placed; an optical microscope which has an optical axis parallel to a vertical direction in an area in which the stage is moved by the slider unit; a scanning electron microscope which has an electron axis intersecting with the optical axis on the stage; an optical measurement/observation unit having a magnification intermediate between magnifications of the scanning electron microscope and the optical microscope, and co-using an objective lens with the optical microscope; a control unit which generates an image from image data on the sample obtained with each of the optical measurement/observation unit, the scanning electron microscope, and the optical microscope, and which controls the slider unit to move the stage; and a display unit which includes a display screen on which the image is displayed under control of the control unit, wherein: during display of a low-magnification optical microscopic image obtained with the optical microscope on the display screen, the control unit controls the display unit to display, on the low-magnification optical microscopic image, a first representation to designate an area to be observed at the magnification of the optical measurement/observation unit; and during display of a high-magnification optical microscopic image obtained with the optical measurement/observation unit on the display screen, the control unit controls the display unit to display, on the high-magnification optical microscopic image, a second representation to designate an area to be observed at the magnification of the scanning electron microscope.