Patent ID: 8610802
Filing Date: 2013-12-17
Classification: H01L,H04N

Abstract:
1. A solid-state imaging device comprising within a pixel region where pixels each containing a photoelectric conversion device are two-dimensionally arranged, a plurality of noise extracting pixels for outputting a noise signal not depending on incident light amount provided in an effective pixel region from which an image signal associated with an object image is outputted, disposed in a manner scattered into two dimensions so that, taking N×N (N being an integer of 2 or more) pixels within said effective pixel region as a unit block, at least one is provided in each row and in each column within that unit block, wherein only said plurality of noise extracting pixels within the pixel region are shielded from the incident light amount by a metal layer so as not to allow the incident light amount on the photoelectric conversion device of said noise extracting pixels, and wherein at least one of said plurality of noise extracting pixels within said unit block is vertically or horizontally directly adjacent to two pixels not shielded from incident light from which an image signal associated with an object image is outputted.