Patent ID: 7935995

Claim:
A photoelectric conversion apparatus comprising: a plurality of photoelectric conversion elements configured to convert incident light to electric carriers; an amplifier MOS transistor shared by the plurality of photoelectric conversion elements; a plurality of floating diffusions connected to the gate electrode of the amplifier MOS transistor; a plurality of transfer MOS transistors arranged corresponding to the respective photoelectric conversion elements, each of the transfer MOS transistors transferring electric carriers from corresponding one of the photoelectric conversion elements to corresponding one of the floating diffusions; and a plurality of wiring lines, wherein at least two individual ones of the floating diffusions are electrically connected to each other with a wiring line included in the same wiring layer as the gate electrode of the amplifier MOS transistor, wherein a part of the plurality of wiring lines define an aperture of one of the plurality of photoelectric conversion elements, and wherein another part of said part of the plurality of wiring lines and a dummy wiring line define an aperture of a different photoelectric conversion element from the one of the plurality of photoelectric conversion elements.