Patent ID: 7193252

Claim:
A solid-state image pickup device comprising: a photosensitive part, having m×n pixels, formed on a semiconductor substrate, which includes a p-type semiconductor layer and an n-type semiconductor layer, and aligned two-dimensionally along m columns (where m is an integer of 2 or more), which partition a horizontal direction, and n rows (where n is an integer of 2 or more), which partition a vertical direction, and picking up an image of light that is made incident thereon; a transfer electrode, being installed on top of said pixels with the longitudinal direction thereof being set along the horizontal direction of said photosensitive part and being applied a vertical transfer voltage that transfers charges generated in said pixels in the vertical direction; and a supply wiring line, formed of metal or metal silicide, installed so as to cover a part of a light-shielded pixel, which is a predetermined pixel among said pixels, and with the longitudinal direction thereof being set along the vertical direction of said photosensitive part, being electrically connected to said transfer electrode, and applying said vertical transfer voltage to said transfer electrode; wherein being arranged to enable correction of the amount of lowering of an output signal, output by said light-shielded pixel, due to said supply wiring line.