Patent ID: 7000216

Claim:
An exposure pattern forming method of forming an exposure pattern by correcting each of pattern portions constituting a design pattern by a correction amount, which amount is previously prepared so as to correspond to both a line width of said pattern portion and a space width of a space portion adjacent to said pattern portion, characterized by including the steps of: subjecting said design pattern to graphic form arithmetic operation, to extract each of said pattern portions for each of target line widths, and to extract each of said space portions for each of target space widths; subjecting each of said pattern portion extracted for each of said target line widths and said space portion extracted for each of said target space widths to graphic form arithmetic operation based on the corresponding one of said correction amounts, to thereby correct said pattern portion having each of said target line widths for each of said target space widths; subjecting an edge of said design pattern to enlargement correction by an amount equivalent to ½ of each of said target space widths and then subjecting said edge to reduction correction by the same amount, to obtain a correction pattern; and subtracting said design pattern from said correcting pattern, to extract a graphic form as a space portion having a space width being equal to or less than said target space width.