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Date of Patent:
Sep. 01, 2020

Filed:

Aug. 30, 2018
Applicant:

Nikon Corporation, Tokyo, JP;

Inventors:

Nobukatsu Machii, Yokohama, JP;

Fuminori Hayano, Tokyo, JP;

Akitoshi Kawai, Yokohama, JP;

Assignee:

Nikon Corporation, Tokyo, JP;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01B 15/06 (2006.01); G01B 15/04 (2006.01); G01N 23/046 (2018.01); G01N 23/04 (2018.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G01B 15/04 (2013.01); G01N 23/04 (2013.01); G01N 23/046 (2013.01); G01N 2223/304 (2013.01); G01N 2223/401 (2013.01);
Abstract

A measurement processing device used for an x-ray inspection apparatus that detects an x-ray passing through a predetermined region of a specimen placed on a placement unit to perform an inspection on the shape of the predetermined region of the specimen includes: a setting unit that sets a three-dimensional region to be detected on the specimen; and a sliced-region selection unit that sets a plurality of sliced regions on the region to be detected, calculates, for each of the plurality of sliced regions, an amount of displacement of the predetermined region that is required to detect the region to be detected when the plurality of sliced regions is regarded as the predetermined region, and selects a sliced region for the inspection from among the plurality of sliced regions on the basis of each of the calculated amounts of displacement.


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