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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 15, 2015
Filed:
Nov. 03, 2011
Takafumi Usui, Seoul, KR;
Takafumi Usui, Seoul, KR;
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Suwon-si, KR;
Abstract
An image pickup device is provided including a plurality of pixels arranged over an entire region of the image pickup device, each pixel including: a plurality of light-receiving sub-pixels that generate an image pickup signal from incident light; and a phase-difference detection sub-pixel having a confined light-receiving region. The plurality of pixels includes first group pixels and second group pixels that are each classified according to an arrangement of the confined light-receiving region of the phase-difference detection sub-pixel thereof, and the confined light-receiving region of the phase-difference detection sub-pixel of the first group pixels and the confined light-receiving region of the phase-difference detection sub-pixel in the second group pixels are arranged biased to opposite directions.