Patent ID: 8179518

Claim:
A scanning exposure apparatus that projects a pattern of an original onto a substrate via a projection optical system and shifts the original and the substrate in synchronization with each other with respect to an optical axis of the projection optical system so as to transfer the pattern of the original to the substrate by exposure, the scanning exposure apparatus comprising: a unit configured to obtain a correction amount according to a rate at which the original and the substrate are shifted in synchronization with each other, for each rate of the original and the substrate, the correction amount for correcting a displacement between the original and the substrate that occurs due to the substrate being shifted at a predetermined rate during a propagation time of light between a pattern surface of the original and an exposed surface on the substrate, and to correct the displacement by controlling of the original or the substrate based on the obtained correction amount when the original and the substrate are shifted in synchronization with each other, wherein the correction amount is determined by multiplying the propagation time of the light by the shifting rate of the substrate.