Patent ID: 8704934

Claim:
A solid-state imaging device, comprising: a plurality of pixels each including an associated light-receiving element making a photoelectric conversion, the plurality of pixels being arranged in a honeycomb structure comprised of a plurality of basic units in which each basic unit is formed of a predetermined pixel at least partly surrounded by three to six pixels neighboring the predetermined pixel out of the plurality of pixels; and a plurality of lenses respectively associated with the plurality of basic units, wherein each one of the plurality of lenses is shared by each one of the pixels that form its associated basic unit, wherein optical axes of the lenses located near the central portion of the solid-state imaging device are non-eccentrically aligned with the centers of the basic units associated with those lenses, and the optical axes of the lenses located away from the central portion of the solid-state imaging device are aligned eccentrically with the centers of the basic units associated with those lenses such that each of the optical axes is directed toward the central portion with a degree of eccentricity that increases as a distance from the central portion increases.