Patent ID: 7405758

Claim:
An image pickup device comprising: a photo receiving unit in which a plurality of cells each generating electric charges through photoelectric conversion are arranged in series; a first transfer unit which is provided in parallel to the photo receiving unit and transfers electric charges generated by the photo receiving unit for each of the plurality of cells; a first gate which is provided between the photo receiving unit and the first transfer unit and transfers electric charges generated by the photo receiving unit to the first transfer unit; a second transfer unit which is provided in parallel to the photo receiving unit and transfers electric charges generated by the photo receiving unit for plural cells of the plurality of cells; a second gate which is provided between the photo receiving unit and the second transfer unit and transfers electric charges generated by the photo receiving unit to the second transfer unit; and a detection unit which detects electric charges transferred by the first transfer unit, wherein two of the photo receiving units are arranged in a manner that the plurality of cells of one of the two photo receiving units are deviated by a half pitch in an arrangement direction from the plurality of cells of the other of the two photo receiving units, the two photo receiving units are disposed in parallel to each other and are provided for each color, two of the first transfer units are disposed on both outer sides of the two photo receiving units, respectively, and are provided for each color, two of the first gates are provided in a manner that one of the two first gates is disposed between corresponding one of the two photo receiving units and corresponding one of the two first transfer units and the other of the two first gates is disposed between corresponding the other of the two photo receiving units and corresponding the other of the two first transfer units, the second transfer unit is disposed on inner sides of the two photo receiving units, and is provided for each color, and two of the second gates are provided in a manner that one of the two second gates is disposed between corresponding one of the two photo receiving units and the second transfer unit and the other of the two second gates is disposed between corresponding the other of the two photo receiving units and the second transfer unit.