Patent ID: 8852987

Claim:
A method of manufacturing an image pickup device that includes a substrate and a plurality of light guiding members, the substrate having an image pickup region and a peripheral region, a plurality of photoelectric conversion portions arranged in the image pickup region, the peripheral region surrounding the image pickup region, the plurality of light guiding members being provided so as to correspond to the respective photoelectric conversion portions on the image pickup region, the method comprising the steps of: forming a filling member such that the filling member covers a light guiding part and a peripheral part provided in a film, the light guiding part being positioned on the image pickup region and having a plurality of openings that correspond to the respective photoelectric conversion portions, the peripheral part being positioned on the peripheral region, the filling member filling in the plurality of openings; processing the filling member; and forming the plurality of light guiding members by a polishing process performed on the filling member so that the light guiding part is exposed, the forming of the plurality of light guiding members being performed after the processing of the filling member has been performed, the plurality of light guiding members being part of the filling member and being disposed in the plurality of openings, wherein, at a first point of time, which is between the forming of the filling member and the processing of the filling member, and at a second point of time, which is between the processing of the filling member and the forming of the plurality of light guiding members, the filling member has a first part positioned on the light guiding part and separated from the image pickup region by a base distance, a second part positioned on the peripheral part and separated from the peripheral region by the base distance, and a third part that is positioned between the first part and the image pickup region and fills in the plurality of openings, and wherein, when S 1 is an area of the image pickup region, S 2 is an area of the peripheral region, V 1A is a volume of the first part at the first point of time, V 2A is a volume of the second part at the first point of time, V 1B is a volume of the first part at the second point of time, and V 2B is a volume of the second part at the second point of time, the following relationships, V 1A /S 1 <V 2A /S 2 and V 1B /S 1 ≧V 2B /S 2 , are satisfied.