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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 30, 2006
Filed:
Sep. 13, 2002
Applicant:
Takayuki Tsuboi, Kanagawa, JP;
Inventor:
Takayuki Tsuboi, Kanagawa, JP;
Assignee:
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 5/225 (2006.01); H01L 31/232 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
There is provided an image pickup apparatus which has a plurality of photoelectric conversion regions and a plurality of reflectors disposed so as to lie around the photoelectric conversion regions when viewed from the light incident direction, and which is constructed such that each reflector reflects at least one part of the light from one of the photoelectric conversion regions towards one of the other photoelectric conversion regions adjacent to the one photoelectric conversion region.