Patent ID: 7091464

Claim:
An image sensor including a plurality of photoelectric converting device lines, each of which has a plurality of photoelectric converting devices provided linearly on a semiconductor substrate on a main scanning direction, comprising: an electric charge transfer section to receive and transfer an electric charge from each of the photoelectric converting devices; and an output section to output a signal corresponding to the electric charges transferred by the electric charge transfer section, wherein the plurality of photoelectric converting devices included in each of the photoelectric converting device lines are shifted by approximately ½ pitch in the main scanning direction with the plurality of photoelectric converting devices of an adjacent photoelectric converting device line, wherein the electric charge transfer section includes a plurality of electric charge transfer channels formed on the semiconductor substrate corresponding to each of the photoelectric converting device lines and the electric charge transfer section also includes a plurality of electric charge transfer electrodes formed to cross each of the electric charge transfer channels as seen on a plane, wherein each electric charge transfer channel is formed close to the plurality of photoelectric converting devices to take a winding shape extended in the main scanning direction, wherein the plurality of photoelectric device lines include one or more single color photoelectric device lines, wherein each single color photoelectric device line is configured to detect electric charges corresponding to a same single color light, wherein an even number of photoelectric converting device lines corresponding to the same single color light are provided adjacent to each other, and wherein electric charge transfer paths corresponding to two of the adjacent photoelectric converting device lines corresponding to the same single color light are connected before the output section.