Patent ID: 7235782

Claim:
A semiconductor inspection system, comprising: a navigation system for storing design information such as design data of a semiconductor chip and for setting capturing and inspecting conditions including a region on a semiconductor wafer subject to inspection based on the design information; and a scanning electron microscope system for performing actual capturing of the semiconductor wafer and for executing inspection in accordance with the capturing and inspecting conditions being set up, wherein the navigation system sets a template comprising a bitmap based on the design information, and performs a matching process with respect to patterns within a plurality of grayscale images having an identical pattern part which are provided by the scanning electron microscope to obtain an image having a highest correlation value with the bitmap, and wherein a portion of the image having the highest correlation value that corresponds to the template is re-registered as a new template in place of the bitmap based on the design information, the bitmap and the new template having the identical pattern part.