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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an information analysis system capable of easily and surely specifying an explanatory variable affecting a criterion variable about the criterion variable related to quality of a product and the explanatory variable related to production of the product. SOLUTION: With respect to a production process of a semiconductor device, history information related to a processor used in each the process is stored in a process information collection part 3 as the explanatory variable of multi-valued information. A value of a yield that is the criterion variable is also stored in the process information collection part 3. When the yield that is the criterion variable is reduced as compared to a predetermined reference value, the history information of the process information collection part 3 is converted into a matrix of binary information by a cross totaling part 4. The matrix of the binary information is once stored in a data storage part 5, and an influence degree to the criterion variable is calculated by an analysis part 6. Contents of the influence degree that is a calculation result is displayed on a contribution description part 7 associatively to the explanatory variable. COPYRIGHT: (C)2007,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method and a unit to form a thin film which is formed in its stabilized quality. SOLUTION: In a crystal growth step, the thin film is formed using a thin film forming apparatus 11. The characteristic value of the thin film formed in this step includes a process error w. In a measuring step, measured characteristic of the formed thin film is measured with a measuring unit 12. The measured characteristic value measured in this step includes a measuring error ν. In a virtual crystal growth step, characteristic value of the thin film formed with a virtual thin film forming apparatus 13 is obtained and an arithmetic characteristic value is computed. In a measuring error removing step, a forecasted characteristic value wherein only the measuring error ν among the process errors w and measuring errors ν is removed from the measuring characteristic value can be computed with a measuring error removing unit 14, on the basis of the computed characteristic value and the measured characteristic value. Moreover, in a apparatus condition determining step, the new apparatus condition of the thin film forming apparatus 11 is determined with a condition setting unit 15 based on the forecasted characteristic value. COPYRIGHT: (C)2007,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a production information processing method allowing rapid and accurate specification of an abnormal process or facility. SOLUTION: Facility identification information D1 for specifying a facility wherein production lots are processed in a plurality of processes, and characteristic inspection information D2 showing an inspection result of each the production lot obtained in a characteristic inspection process after completion of the process are associated and are set as a unit processing information U. The unit processing information U of the plurality of production lots are arranged side by side, and a data table D0 is set. The unit processing information U such that the facility identification information D1 is equal with respect to the process is set as a set in each the process, and arrangement order of the unit processing information U is rearranged according to permutation which the sets can take. The case that frequency of a change of the characteristic inspection information D2 according to arrangement order of the unit processing information U becomes minimum is searched for. COPYRIGHT: (C)2007,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To detect abnormality which occurs in an important process formed of a plurality of processors at an early stage and to remove a factor caused by the device in a manufacturing process. SOLUTION: A device status discrimination system of the manufacturing process where a plurality of processors are arranged in the same process is provided with a difference information generation means 4 formed of comparators 41, 42 and 43 generating difference information on measurement signals 11, 21 and 31 output from the respective processors 1, 2 and 3, and a status discrimination means 5 formed of logic circuits 51, 52 and 53 discriminating the status of the processors 1, 2 and 3 by synthetically determining a plurality of pieces of difference information generated in the difference information generation means 4. Thus, the abnormal device can be correctly specified at the early stage. COPYRIGHT: (C)2005,JPO&NCIPI
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To detect abnormality which occurs in an important process formed of a plurality of processors at an early stage and to remove a factor of a device result in a manufacturing process. SOLUTION: A device state discrimination system of the manufacturing process where a plurality of processors are arranged in the same process is provided with a difference information generation means 4 formed of comparators 41, 42 and 43 generating difference information on measurement signals 11, 21 and 31 outputted from the respective processors 1, 2 and 3, and a state discrimination means 5 formed of logic circuits 51, 52 and 53 discriminating the states of the processors 1, 2 and 3 by synthetically determining plural pieces of difference information generated in the difference information generation means 4. Thus, the abnormal device can correctly be specified at the early stage. COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To extract each feature axis comprising independent components which are independent of other components from a teaching sample. SOLUTION: Independent components to the number of p which are estimated values of independent signal sources are acquired by independent component analysis or the like from a set of a characteristic distribution of a sample pertinent to a past example, and a feature space wherein p-dimensional independent component vectors based on the acquired independent components to the number of p are used as each feature axis is set. Hereby, overlapping between each feature space of the pertinent sample and a non-pertinent sample is prevented. Moreover, a feature quantity can be set objectively based on a characteristic distribution of an objective sample by determining the feature quantity of the objective sample by an inner product between the characteristic distribution of the objective sample and the independent feature axis. COPYRIGHT: (C)2007,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a developing device capable of sufficiently supplying non- magnetic one-component toner without making a developer supply member in press-contact and friction with a developer carrier, and capable of stably obtaining a high density image since the stress to the toner and the secular deterioration of the toner are small. SOLUTION: By providing periodic conductive electrode patterns 21, 22... on the surface of the developer carrier 1 carrying the non-magnetic toner 15 through an insulating part and applying desired bias potential to the electrodes 21 and 22, electric field gradient is formed near the surface of the developer carrier 1, so that the toner 15 is stuck and fed onto the carrier 1 without needing a triboelectrification process.
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an imaging apparatus and an imaging method producing an output image having no granular feeling and exhibiting excellent image reproducibility at the time of forming a halftone image, especially the intermediate or low density part thereof. SOLUTION: When a processing section 200 for controlling an exposing means 15 reproduces a halftone image area of a specified gray level or below, granular feeling is suppressed by selecting an exposure pattern which can be represented with a recording dot diameter within a range based on a specified rule among exposure patterns prepared previously. When a plurality of exposure patterns are applicable, an exposure pattern having a smallest number of dots per inch is used thus forming a halftone image having excellent image reproducibility.
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a developing method by which even in high-resolution image formation, stable gradation is realized by stably forming smaller dots without granularity in a low density portion, and enhancement of image quality and stability of development are achieved by obtaining sufficient density in a high density portion, and to provide an image forming apparatus. SOLUTION: Development is performed with such developing characteristics that the rate of increase of development density to increase of potential difference between a photoreceptor 1 and a developing roller 41 varies between a region where the potential difference is small and a region where the potential difference is large, the rate of increase of development density in the region where the potential difference is small is lower than that in the region where the potential difference is large, and the upper limit of development density in the region where the rate of increase of development density is lower is ≥0.3. COPYRIGHT: (C)2007,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a laser annealing device capable of keeping the average energy density of laser light with which a workpiece is irradiated constant even when a profile of the laser light is changed. SOLUTION: In the laser annealing device 10 when an irradiation optical system unit 12 irradiates laser light emitted from a laser oscillator unit 11 to an irradiation position of a substrate 17, a Joule meter 13 detects laser light energy, and a profile meter 14 detects the profile of the laser light. On the basis of these detection outputs, calculation means 15 calculates the average energy density of the laser light irradiated to the substrate 17, and control means 16 controls the average energy density of the laser light with which the substrate 17 is irradiated such that it becomes a predetermined constant value in response to an output of the calculation means 15. With the control, the average energy density of the laser light with which the substrate 17 is irradiated is kept unchanged. COPYRIGHT: (C)2005,JPO&NCIPI