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Date of Patent:
Aug. 10, 2021

Filed:

Sep. 10, 2019
Applicant:

Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;

Inventor:

Chihiro Nagura, Yokohama, JP;

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01D 5/347 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G01D 5/34746 (2013.01); G01D 5/34715 (2013.01); G01D 5/34776 (2013.01);
Abstract

The present invention provides a position detection apparatus that is provided with a scale and a detector and includes a processing unit configured to perform processing for setting a number of light receiving elements that are consecutive in a direction of relative movement and whose outputs are to be added for the light receiving elements so that, in a first resolution mode, a phase of a component of a fourth spatial frequency lower than a spatial frequency corresponding to a frequency offset amount is detected and, in a second resolution mode for which a resolution is lower than the first resolution mode, a phase of a component of a spatial frequency of an interference image of a second grating pattern is detected.


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