Patent ID: 8461659

Claim:
A solid state imaging apparatus comprising: a photoelectric conversion layer; and a multilayer interference filter disposed so as to selectively guide light of a predetermined color, out of incident light, to the photoelectric conversion layer, wherein the multilayer interference filter includes: an upper laminated structure in which first layers and second layers are alternately laminated, the first layer and the second layer having different refractive indices; and a lower laminated structure in which first layers and second layers are alternately laminated, the first layer and the second layer having different refractive indices; wherein the upper laminated structure and the lower laminated structure are equal in number of layers laminated therein, wherein each of the lowermost layer of the upper laminated structure and the uppermost layer of the lower laminated structure are configured by the first layer; and wherein the upper laminated structure and the lower laminated structure are configured to be asymmetric to each other such that, within some layer sets out of a plurality of layer sets each including two layers disposed at corresponding positions in the upper and lower laminated layers, one layer of the two layers in each layer set of the some layer sets is thinner than the other layer.