Patent ID: 7470881

Claim:
A solid-state imaging device comprising: plural groups of photoelectric conversion devices formed on a semiconductor substrate, said plural groups comprising: plural first groups of photoelectric conversion devices comprising adjacent plural rows of photoelectric conversion devices and including red, green and blue color filters; and plural second groups of photoelectric conversion devices which are alternately formed with said plural first groups of photoelectric conversion devices, said plural second groups comprising adjacent plural rows of photoelectric conversion devices and including red, green and blue color filters; and plural microlenses formed on said first and second groups of photoelectric conversion devices, said plural microlenses being shifted in a peripheral portion of the solid-state imaging device to decrease a difference between an amount of incident light that is incident on a photoelectric conversion device in said peripheral portion of said imaging device and an amount of incident light that is incident on a photoelectric conversion device in a central portion of said imaging device, wherein in said peripheral portion of the solid-state imaging device, the microlenses formed on said plural first groups are shifted by a first amount and the microlenses formed on said plural second groups are shifted by a second amount which is greater than said first amount.