Patent №
US 11,645,831
Granted
2023-05-09
Filed 2020
Owner
APPLIED MATERIALS ISRAEL LTD.
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Assignment
Recorded
Dataset
AIPD
2023_r1 edition
Application
16922977
There is provided a method and a system configured obtain an image of a semiconductor specimen including one or more arrays, each including repetitive structural elements, and one or more regions, each region at least partially surrounding a corresponding array and including features different from the repetitive structural elements, wherein the PMC is configured to, during run-time scanning of the semiconductor specimen, perform a correlation analysis between pixel intensity of the image and pixel intensity of a reference image informative of at least one of the repetitive structural elements, to obtain a correlation matrix, use the correlation matrix to distinguish between one or more first areas of the image corresponding to the one or more arrays and one or more second areas of the image corresponding the one or more regions, and output data informative of the one or more first areas of the image.
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Ownership
APPLIED MATERIALS ISRAEL LTD.
assignment · 533870574
Assignors
COHEN, YEHUDA, BISTRITZER, RAFAEL
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