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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 25, 2012
Filed:
Dec. 13, 2010
Motonari Katsuno, Kyoto, JP;
Kazuhiro Yamashita, Hyogo, JP;
Kosaku Saeki, Niigata, JP;
Panasonic Corporation, Osaka, JP;
Abstract
A solid-state imaging device according to an implementation of the present invention is a solid-state imaging device including a plurality of unit pixels arranged in a matrix, and each of the unit pixels includes a photodiode which performs photoelectric conversion on light so as to convert the light into an electric signal, a top lens which collects incident light, and an intralayer lens which collects, to the photodiode, the incident light collected by the top lens, and a centroid of the photodiode is displaced from a center of the unit pixel into a first direction, the top lens is formed into an asymmetric shape so as to have a centroid displaced from the center of the unit pixel into the first direction, and the intralayer lens is formed to have a centroid displaced from the center of the unit pixel into the first direction.