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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 20, 2025
Filed:
Sep. 01, 2022
Lasertec Corporation, Kanagawa, JP;
Masafumi Shinoda, Yokohama, JP;
LASERTEC CORPORATION, Yokohama, JP;
Abstract
An image processing apparatus according to the present disclosure includes: a photographing control unit configured to take a photographed image of a sample including a plurality of regions having different reflectances a plurality of times while a photographing condition that affects luminance of the photographed image is changed; a generation unit configured to generate a photographing condition map indicating a photographing condition under which luminance of a pixel in the photographed image exceeds a threshold; a determination unit configured to determine a photographing condition that is suitable for photographing of each of the regions based on the photographing condition map; and a composition unit configured to generate a composite image in which region images of the respective regions are combined by using the photographed image corresponding to the determined photographing condition.