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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Sep. 09, 2025

Filed:

Oct. 03, 2022
Applicant:

Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Suwon-si, KR;

Inventors:

Shashank Shrikant Agashe, Bengaluru, IN;

Gaurav Kumar, Bengaluru, IN;

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06T 7/557 (2017.01); G01N 21/95 (2006.01); H01L 21/66 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06T 7/557 (2017.01); G01N 21/9501 (2013.01); H01L 22/12 (2013.01); G06T 2207/30148 (2013.01);
Abstract

Systems and methods for brightfield inspection of a circular rotating wafer are provided. A method includes: acquiring a plurality of images of a circular wafer, that is rotating, by using a plurality of line cameras; obtaining a plurality of synchronized images, based on the plurality of images, by synchronizing a motion of the circular wafer, that is rotating, with at least one line camera from among the plurality of line cameras; obtaining a single wafer map by integrating together the plurality of synchronized images; obtaining an in-focus image of the single wafer map while the circular wafer is moving; and performing brightfield inspection of the circular wafer based on the in-focus image of the single wafer map.


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