Patent ID: 7417214

Claim:
A solid-state image sensor comprising: light-receiving elements arranged in a light-receiving area; in-layer lenses on said light -receiving elements; color filters above said in-layer lenses; micro-lenses on said color filters; a first transparent film on said micro-lenses; and a second transparent film between said in-layer lenses and said color filters, 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 a 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, and wherein said color filters are formed not on an uneven surface resulting from said in-layer lenses, but on said second transparent film.