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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.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 09, 2004
Filed:
Oct. 18, 2001
Applicant:
Inventor:
Taira Iwase, Kawasaki, JP;
Assignee:
Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/750 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/750 ;
Abstract
According to a first aspect of the present invention, there is provided a method of correcting a mask for a data program of a read only memory, comprising selecting an optional data from a data map comprising first data and second data, the optional data being one of the first data, and inspecting neighboring data around the optional data and, where all the neighboring data surrounding the optional data are the second data, correcting a shape of the mask in a position corresponding to the optional data.