Solid state imaging device and imaging apparatus
AssigneeSony Corporation
InventorJunichi Furukawa
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Abstract
A solid-state imaging device includes: a semiconductor substrate on which multiple pixels are provided, each of the pixels having a photoelectric converting section; multiple insulating films stacked on the semiconductor substrate; a wiring film provided between the multiple insulating films; an intralayer lens provided for each of the photoelectric converting section between the multiple insulating films; an optical filter provided for each of the photoelectric converting section on the insulating film; and an on-chip lens provided for each of the photoelectric converting section on the optical filter, wherein at least one of the intralayer lenses and on-chip lens has a different structure for each pixel in accordance with the characteristic of the optical filter.
Claims12
A solid-state imaging device comprising:
- a semiconductor substrate on which multiple pixels are provided, each of the pixels having a photoelectric converting section;
- multiple insulating films stacked on the semiconductor substrate;
- a wiring film provided between the multiple insulating films;
- an intralayer lens provided for each of the photoelectric converting section between the multiple insulating films;
- an optical filter provided for each of the photoelectric converting section on the insulating film;
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- an on-chip lens provided for each of the photoelectric converting section on the optical filter,
- wherein at least one of the intralayer lenses and on-chip lens has a different structure for each pixel in accordance with the characteristic of the optical filter.
An imaging apparatus comprising:
- a solid state imaging device imaging a subject;
- an imaging optical system forming a subject image in a photoreceptive section of the solid state imaging device;
- a drive/control section driving the imaging optical system;
- a signal processing section performing signal processing on the output signal from the solid state imaging device and generating an image signal;
- a recording section recording the image signal generated by the signal processing section;
- an output section outputting the image signal generated by the signal processing section;
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- an operating section inputting signals for controlling an imaging operation,
- wherein the solid state imaging device comprises:
- a semiconductor substrate on which multiple pixels are provided, each of the pixels having a photoelectric converting section;
- multiple insulating films stacked on the semiconductor substrate;
- a wiring film provided between the multiple insulating films;
- an intralayer lens provided for each of the photoelectric converting section between the multiple insulating films;
- an optical filter provided for each of the photoelectric converting section on the insulating film;
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- an on-chip lens provided for each of the photoelectric converting section on the optical filter,
- in which at least one of the intralayer lenses and on-chip lens has a different structure for each pixel in accordance with the characteristic of the optical filter.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.