OPTICAL MEASURING APPARATUS AND OPTICAL MEASURING METHOD

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an optical measuring apparatus widely used in a home by visualizing a measured result and simplifying the apparatus. SOLUTION: An image measuring probe apparatus 1 is provided with a location detecting part 4, measures the intensity of a transmitted and scattered light in a subject 14 scanned by the probe comprising a light-emitting part 2 and a light-receiving part 3 along the subject 14 and detects the location of the probe, by using the location detecting part 4. The measured result can be visualized, by continuously storing the intensity of the transmitted and the scattered light at each measuring section and the measuring locations to a storage section 7, and combining them. Since the probe scans, the measured result can be visualized, the apparatus can be made compact in size even if the number of light-emitting elements 10 and light-receiving elements 12 is small. COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO