Patent ID: 7236198
Filing Date: 2007-06-26
Classification: H01L,H04N

Abstract:
1. An image capturing device in which a plurality of pixels are two-dimensionally arrayed on one semiconductor substrate, comprising: first pixels each provided with a first photoelectric conversion portion for capturing an image of a subject, a first amplifier portion for amplifying a signal generated at said first photoelectric conversion portion, a first reset portion for resetting said signal generated at said first photoelectric conversion portion and a photoelectric conversion portion for photometry employed for photometering the subject; and second pixels each provided with a second photoelectric conversion portion for capturing the image of the subject, a second amplifier portion for amplifying a signal generated by said second photoelectric conversion portion and a second reset portion for resetting the signal generated at said second photoelectric conversion portion, wherein said first pixels and said second pixels are arrayed with an specifically combined array pattern; said plurality of pixels are arrayed two-dimensionally in a first direction and in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction; a plurality of said first pixels and a plurality of said second pixels are arrayed in each of a plurality of lines that extend in the first direction; a plurality of types of line array patterns defined by an arrangement of said first pixels and said second pixels in each of said line are provided; and said lines are arrayed in the second direction with a predetermined combination of said plurality of types of line array patterns.