Patents by Inventor Roni Miller

Roni Miller has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Systems and methods for region-adaptive defect detection
    Patent number: 10535131
    Abstract: A defect detection method includes acquiring a reference image; selecting a target region of the reference image; identifying, based on a matching metric, one or more comparative regions of the reference image corresponding to the target region; acquiring a test image; masking the test image with the target region of the reference image and the one or more comparative regions of the reference image; defining a defect threshold for the target region in the test image based on the one or more comparative regions in the test image; and determining whether the target region of the test image contains a defect based on the defect threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2020
    Assignee: KLA-Tencor Corporation
    Inventors: Christopher Maher, Bjorn Brauer, Vijayakumar Ramachandran, Laurent Karsenti, Eliezer Rosengaus, John R. Jordan, III, Roni Miller
  • Systems and Methods for Region-Adaptive Defect Detection
    Publication number: 20170140516
    Abstract: A defect detection method includes acquiring a reference image; selecting a target region of the reference image; identifying, based on a matching metric, one or more comparative regions of the reference image corresponding to the target region; acquiring a test image; masking the test image with the target region of the reference image and the one or more comparative regions of the reference image; defining a defect threshold for the target region in the test image based on the one or more comparative regions in the test image; and determining whether the target region of the test image contains a defect based on the defect threshold.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 14, 2016
    Publication date: May 18, 2017
    Inventors: Christopher Maher, Bjorn Brauer, Vijayakumar Ramachandran, Laurent Karsenti, Eliezer Rosengaus, John R. Jordan, III, Roni Miller