SOLID-STATE IMAGE PICKUP ELEMENT

• Main Author: NATORI TAICHI
• Format: Patent
• Language: English
• Published: 04.11.2004
• Edition: 7
• Subjects: BASIC ELECTRIC ELEMENTS; ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE; ELECTRIC SOLID STATE DEVICES NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; ELECTRICITY; OPTICAL ELEMENTS, SYSTEMS, OR APPARATUS; OPTICS; PHYSICS; PICTORIAL COMMUNICATION, e.g. TELEVISION; SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To improve degradation in sensitivity (shading) near an imaging region in a solid-state image pickup element. SOLUTION: The element has on-chip microlenses 28 each corresponding to each of sensors 23 of an imaging region 42, and a reduction ratio center of exit pupil correction...