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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 23, 2016
Filed:
Mar. 15, 2013
Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America, Torrance, CA (US);
Masao Hiramoto, Osaka, JP;
Seiji Nishiwaki, Hyogo, JP;
Toshiya Fujii, Shiga, JP;
Tatsuya Nakamura, Osaka, JP;
Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America, Torrance, CA (US);
Abstract
This solid-state image sensor includes a photosensitive cell array including first through fourth photosensitive cellsto, a dispersing element array including first and second dispersing elementsandarranged to face the first and third photosensitive cellsand, respectively, and a microlens array including first and second microlensesand. The first dispersing elementmakes parts of incoming light that have come through the first microlensand that have first and second color components incident on the first and second photosensitive cellsand, respectively. The second dispersing elementmakes parts of incoming light that have come through the second microlensand that have third and fourth color components incident on the third and fourth photosensitive cellsand, respectively. In addition, light that has not passed through the first and second microlensesandis also incident on the second and fourth photosensitive cellsand