Patent ID: 11890711
Assignee: DISCO CORPORATION
Field: Control (Instruments)
Classification: CPC B  G  H | IPC B  G  H

Claim 0:
1. A processing apparatus comprising:
a holding table having a holding surface for holding thereon a workpiece with a plurality of devices formed in respective areas demarcated on a face side of the workpiece by a plurality of projected dicing lines;
a processing unit that processes the workpiece held on the holding table;
an image capturing unit that captures an image of the workpiece held on the holding table;
a moving unit that moves the holding table relatively to the processing unit and the image capturing unit in horizontal directions along the holding surface;
a touch panel that displays thereon the image captured by the image capturing unit, wherein the image captured by the image capturing unit includes a contour corresponding to edges of the image; and
a control unit that detects a line in the image based on whether points on the contour of the image are positioned within a plurality of allowable regions on a contact line traced on the image displayed on the touch panel and registers the detected line, wherein each of the plurality of allowable regions is a region around a position on the contact line;
wherein the line in the image represents one of the projected dicing lines or a processed groove formed in the workpiece by the processing unit in the image displayed on the touch panel, and
wherein the control unit registers the line in the image as an image capturing route along which the image capturing unit that captures an image of the workpiece is to be moved relatively to the holding table.