Patent ID: 7358475

Claim:
A solid-state imaging device comprising a semiconductor substrate and a plurality of pixels arranged on the semiconductor substrate, wherein a predetermined number of neighboring pixels share a drain region to form a cell, each of the plurality of pixels includes: a photoelectric conversion portion provided on the semiconductor substrate; a gate electrode provided between the photoelectric conversion portion and the drain region on the semiconductor substrate; a light-path change member which is provided above the photoelectric conversion portion and has a curved surface; and a converging lens provided above the light-path change member, in each of the plurality of pixels, a center of the photoelectric conversion portion is displaced from a center of said each of the plurality of the pixels in a direction parallel to a principal surface of the semiconductor substrate; in the cell, displacement directions of centers of photoelectric conversion portions in the predetermined number of pixels are different from each other, and in each of the predetermined number of pixels in the cell, the light-path change member deflects an incident light, which has been converged by the converging lens, in accordance with a displacement direction of the center of the photoelectric conversion portion.