US 2021/0242260 A1 · SOLID-STATE IMAGING DEVICE AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS

Abstract

A solid-state imaging device includes a plurality of pixels each of which includes a photoelectric conversion unit that generates charges by photoelectrically converting light, and a transistor that reads a pixel signal of a level corresponding to the charges generated in the photoelectric conversion unit. A phase difference pixel which is at least a part of the plurality of pixels is configured in such a manner that the photoelectric conversion unit is divided into a plurality of photoelectric conversion units and an insulated light shielding film is embedded in a region for separating the plurality of photoelectric conversion units, which are divided, from each other.

Claims20

Dependent claims

A light detection device, comprising:

first, second, and third photoelectric conversion regions disposed in a substrate, wherein the second photoelectric conversion region is disposed adjacent to the first photoelectric conversion region the third photoelectric conversion region, and wherein the first, second, and third photoelectric conversion regions being disposed along a first direction;
a first on-chip lens disposed above the first and second photoelectric conversion regions;
a second on-chip lens disposed above the third photoelectric conversion region;
a light shield, wherein at least a part of the light shield is disposed between the first photoelectric conversion region and the second photoelectric conversion region.

1 more element

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application

17/237,934Filed 22 Apr 2021

Priority

JP 2013-13621728 Jun 2013

Published

5 Aug 2021

Term ends

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Classification15 codes

H10F 39/8057
Coatings: optical shielding
H04N 23/67
Control of cameras or camera modules: focus control based on electronic image sensor signals
H04N 25/703
SSIS architectures; Circuits associated therewith: sSIS architectures incorporating pixels for producing signals other than image signals
H04N 25/76
SSIS architectures; Circuits associated therewith: addressed sensors, e.g. MOS or CMOS sensors

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