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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 01, 2008
Filed:
Mar. 20, 2003
Xuemei Zhang, Mountain View, CA (US);
Ramakrishna Kakarala, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Izhak Baharav, San Jose, CA (US);
Xuemei Zhang, Mountain View, CA (US);
Ramakrishna Kakarala, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Izhak Baharav, San Jose, CA (US);
Micron Technology, Inc., Boise, ID (US);
Abstract
Reconstructing the shape of the surface of an object in greater than two dimensions is performed using a noise-tolerant reconstruction process and/or a multi-resolution reconstruction process. The noise-tolerant reconstruction process can be a Bayesian reconstruction process that adds noise information representing the noise distribution in optical image(s) of the object to surface gradient information estimated from the images to determine surface height information that defines the shape of the surface of the object in greater than two dimensions. In the multi-resolution reconstruction process, for each resolution of the image, the surface gradient information is estimated and the surface height information is calculated using the estimated surface gradient information. To obtain the final surface height map, the surface height information from each resolution is combined to reconstruct the shape of the surface of the object in greater than two dimensions. The multi-resolution reconstruction process can be used with the Bayesian reconstruction process or with another decomposition process, such as a wavelet decomposition process.