Patent ID: 11961219
Assignee: KLA CORPORATION
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 16:
17. A non-transitory computer-readable medium, storing program instructions executable on one or more computer systems for performing a computer-implemented method for generating a simulated image of a specimen, wherein the computer-implemented method comprises:
generating a portion of design data for a specimen input to a generative adversarial network by modifying original design data for the specimen with a synthetic defect;
generating a simulated image for the specimen by inputting the portion of the design data for the specimen into the generative adversarial network, wherein the simulated image comprises an augmented defect image of the synthetic defect, and wherein said inputting is performed by the one or more computer systems;
wherein one or more components are executed by the one or more computer systems, wherein the one or more components comprise the generative adversarial network; and
wherein the generative adversarial network is trained with a training set comprising portions of design data for one or more specimens designated as training inputs and corresponding images of the one or more specimens designated as training outputs.