Patent ID: 7459665

Claim:
A solid-state image sensor comprising: light-receiving elements arranged in a light-receiving area; micro-lenses corresponding to said light-receiving elements; and a transparent film on said micro-lenses for moderating incidence angle of oblique light, entering the solid-state image sensor from above the solid-state image sensor, at a periphery of said light-receiving area, wherein, in a central portion of said light-receiving area a corresponding one of said micro-lenses is directly above a corresponding one of said light-receiving elements, and in a portion of said light-receiving area that is closer to the periphery of said light-receiving area than a center of said light-receiving area corresponding ones of said micro-lenses are offset from directly above corresponding ones of said light-receiving elements towards the center of said light receiving area, such that when the oblique light enters the solid-state image sensor from above the solid-state image sensor at the periphery of said light-receiving area, the oblique light is refracted towards said light-receiving elements by said transparent film and further refracted towards said light-receiving elements by said micro-lenses.