Patent ID: 9106856
Filing Date: 2015-08-11
Classification: H01L,H04N

Abstract:
1. A solid-state imaging device, comprising: a semiconductor substrate that includes an imaging region and a peripheral circuit region; a plurality of photodiodes arranged in rows and columns in the imaging region; a plurality of output circuits provided in the imaging region to transfer electric charges photoelectrically converted in the photodiodes and output pixel signals corresponding to the electric charges to outside of the imaging region; a read circuit provided in the peripheral circuit region to read the pixel signals from the imaging region; and a plurality of signal lines extending in a column direction above the semiconductor substrate to transfer the pixel signals, wherein each of the signal lines connects two or more output circuits among the output circuits to the read circuit, two photodiodes adjacent at least in a row direction among the photodiodes and an output circuit among the output circuits are included in a corresponding one of pixel cells, the pixel cells include a first pixel cell and a second pixel cell, the first pixel cell and the second pixel cell being adjacent to each other in a column direction and shifting from each other by one column of the photodiodes in the row direction, and the output circuit in the first pixel cell is adjacent to the second pixel cell in the row direction.