Apparatus for processing substrate and method of determining whether substrate treatment process is normal
AssigneeSemes Co., Ltd.
InventorsOhyeol Kwon, Soo Yeon Shin, Hyun Hoo Kim, Myung Chan Cho
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Abstract
The inventive concept provides a method to determine whether a substrate treatment process is normal using a deep learning model. The method comprising receiving input on a substrate treatment process video, preprocessing the inputted video, using the deep learning model to study a preprocessed video, and determining whether the substrate treatment process is normal by comparing the trained model and a real time substrate treatment process video.
Claims12
A method for determining whether a substrate treatment process is normal using a deep learning model, the method comprising:
- receiving an input image of a substrate processing;
- preprocessing the input image;
- choosing a recognized tip area of a nozzle as a region of interest (ROI);
- learning the preprocessed input image by using a deep learning model;
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- comparing a real time substrate treatment process image and a learned data by using the trained deep learning model to determine whether the substrate treatment process is normal,
- wherein the preprocessing the input image comprises recognizing the tip area of a nozzle in the input image of the substrate processing, a chemical being sprayed from the tip area of the nozzle from which a chemical is to be sprayed,
- wherein the learning the preprocessed input image by using the deep learning model comprises learning the ROI according to flow rates of the chemical.
A substrate treatment process apparatus for processing a substrate by spraying a chemical, the substrate treatment process apparatus comprising:
- an image capturing unit for capturing an image of the substrate and a chemical being sprayed on the substrate;
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- a determining unit for determining whether a substrate treatment process is normal by using a deep learning model, wherein the determining unit comprises:
- a preprocessing unit for preprocessing data of the image captured by the image capturing unit;
- a learning unit for learning the preprocessed data by using a deep learning model;
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- a comparing unit that determines whether the substrate treatment process is normal by comparing data of a real time substrate treatment process image and the learned data in the learning unit,
- wherein the determining unit determines whether the substrate treatment process is normal based on either an aerosol spray form inside a chamber in which the substrate processes is performed or a wetting of the substrate,
- wherein the preprocessing unit chooses a part of the image of the substrate and a chemical sprayed on the substrate captured by the image capturing unit as a region of interest (ROI),
- wherein the ROI is a tip area in an image of the substrate processing, the tip area being a chemical sprayed area by a nozzle, and
- wherein the learning unit learns the ROI according to flow rates of the chemical.
A method for determining whether a wetting state of a substrate by using a deep learning model, the method comprising:
- receiving an input image of a substrate processing;
- preprocessing the input image;
- learning the preprocessed input image by using a deep learning model;
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- comparing a real time substrate treatment process image and the learned data by the deep learning model and determining whether a substrate treatment process is normal,
- wherein the preprocessing an input image comprises recognizing a tip area in the input image of the substrate processing, the tip area being a chemical sprayed area by a nozzle,
- wherein the learning the preprocessed input image by using the deep learning model comprises learning the ROI according to flow rates of the chemical.
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