IDENTIFICATION OF AN ARRAY IN A SEMICONDUCTOR SPECIMEN

Patent №

US 11,645,831

Granted

2023-05-09

Filed 2020

Owner

APPLIED MATERIALS ISRAEL LTD.

Lab

AI components

1

vision

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.

VisionG06V 10/762G06F 18/23G06T 7/001G06V 10/758G06T 2207/10061G06T 2207/30148

AI classification

Vision1.00
Planning0.03
AI hardware0.01
Knowledge representation0.01
Machine learning0.00
Natural language0.00
Evolutionary computation0.00
Speech0.00

Ownership

APPLIED MATERIALS ISRAEL LTD.

assignment · 533870574

Assignors

COHEN, YEHUDA, BISTRITZER, RAFAEL

On an employer assignment, the assignors are typically the inventors.

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