Patent ID: 8515155
Filing Date: 2013-08-20
Classification: G01R,G06K,G06T

Abstract:
1. A pattern generating apparatus that generates a reference pattern used to evaluate a shape of a circuit pattern of an electronic device, the pattern generating apparatus comprising: reference pattern generating means for generating, from contour data sets of at least two circuit patterns, a reference pattern used in a pattern test, wherein the reference pattern generating means determines points that cross the at least two contour data sets and, in a direction applied to each portion of the patterns, respectively correspond to contour data of one circuit pattern and to contour data of another circuit pattern, and generates the reference pattern based on extraction of an average position between the corresponding point of the contour data of the one circuit pattern and the corresponding point of the contour data of the other circuit pattern, or a center position between the corresponding point of the contour data of the one circuit pattern and the corresponding point of the contour data of the other circuit pattern.