Patent Document ID: 20160350905
Application ID: 14728495
Patent Status: 0

Claim One:
1. A computerized method of inspecting an inspection area of a specimen, the inspection area comprising at least one inspection pattern of interest (PoI), the method comprising: upon obtaining design data informative of design structural elements comprised in a design PoI corresponding to the PoI and an inspection recipe generated using the design data and a test image comprising at least one test PoI of substantially the same design as the at least one PoI, providing local segmentation of at least one inspection PoI comprised in an inspection image captured from the inspection area, thereby obtaining inspection structural elements comprised in the at least one inspection PoI, wherein the local segmentation is provided using segmentation configuration data specified in the inspection recipe and obtained resulting of global segmentation of the test image captured from the inspection area; identifying among the inspection structural elements in the at least one inspection PoI one or more inspection structural elements corresponding to at least one metrology target, to yield one or more target structural elements; identifying design structural elements corresponding to the one or more target structural elements, wherein identifying is provided using design association data specified in the inspection recipe and obtained resulting of associating segmented structural elements comprised in the test PoI with the design structural elements comprised in the design PoI; and enabling metrology measurements for the one or more target structural elements using the identified design structural elements.