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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 17, 2009
Filed:
Jul. 06, 2005
Applicant:
Shinji Horii, Fukuyama, JP;
Inventor:
Shinji Horii, Fukuyama, JP;
Assignee:
Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha, Osaka, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 3/14 (2006.01); H04N 5/335 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A solid-state image pickup apparatus includes one or a plurality of photoelectric converting sections for photoelectric converting incident light into a signal charge on a semiconductor substrate, and a vertical charge-transferring section for charge-transferring the signal charge photoelectric converted at the photoelectric converting section, in which the vertical charge-transferring section is located under the photoelectric converting section on the side of the semiconductor substrate.