US Patent 7916370 Laser scanning microscope and scanner drive device

A laser scanning microscope scans a plurality of scanning areas based on a drive table to indicate time series data for driving a scanner used for performing scanning with laser light. The laser scanning microscope includes a drive table creation unit and a drive control unit. The drive table creation unit is applied for creating an interpolating drive table for specifying a scanning path between an end point of a first scanning area and a start point of a second scanning area which is scanned next to the first scanning area. The drive control unit is applied for controlling driving of the scanner based on the interpolating drive table between the first scanning area and the second scanning area.