Patent ID: 6888368

Claim:
A method of estimating a monetary result due to variations in under-killed defects between current and new liquid crystal display (LCD) manufacturing setups, wherein the current and new LCD manufacturing setups each comprise an array test stage for testing electrode array panels, and a cell inspection stage for inspecting LCD cells that comprise the electrode array panels, comprising: determining, for the current LCD manufacturing setup, a number of current electrode array panels classified as defective by the array test stage to yield current test data; determining, for the current LCD manufacturing setup, a number of current LCD cells classified as defective by the cell inspection stage to yield current inspection data; determining a current under-killed defect parameter based on the current test data and the current inspection data; determining, for the new LCD manufacturing setup, a number of new electrode array panels classified as defective by the array test stage to yield new test data; determining, for the new LCD manufacturing setup, a number of new LCD cells classified as defective by the cell inspection stage to yield new inspection data; determining a new under-killed defect parameter based on the new test data and the new inspection data; comparing the current under-killed defect parameter with the new under-killed defect parameter to yield first comparison data; estimating the monetary result due to variations in under-killed defects based on the first comparison data.