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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 08, 2008
Filed:
Apr. 29, 2004
Nobuo Suzuki, Miyagi, JP;
Nobuo Suzuki, Miyagi, JP;
Fujilfilm Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A solid-state image pickup device comprising a semiconductor substrate, and a plurality of photoelectric conversion elements arranged on a surface of said semiconductor substrate both in a line direction and in a column direction perpendicular to the line direction to form a tetragonal lattice, wherein: said photoelectric conversion elements include a plurality of high-sensitive photoelectric conversion elements for performing photoelectric conversion in relatively high sensitivity, and a plurality of low-sensitive photoelectric conversion elements for performing photoelectric conversion in relatively low sensitivity; and said plurality of high-sensitive photoelectric conversion elements and said plurality of low-sensitive photoelectric conversion elements are arranged so as to be shaped like a checkered pattern.