Patent ID: 8711267

Claim:
A solid-state imaging device comprising: an imaging element formed on a semiconductor substrate, and comprising an imaging area including a plurality of pixel blocks each including a plurality of pixels; a first optical system configured to focus an image of a subject on an imaging plane; a second optical system comprising a microlens array including a plurality of microlenses corresponding to the pixel blocks, and re-focusing the image of the imaging plane onto the pixel blocks corresponding to the respective microlenses; a first filter placed on the second optical system, and including a plurality of first color filters corresponding to the microlenses; and a second filter placed on the imaging element, and including a plurality of second color filters corresponding to the first color filters of the first filter, wherein, the first and second filters are designed so that the first and second color filters deviate to a periphery of the imaging area, the deviation becoming larger toward the periphery of the imaging area, wherein an amount of the deviation α of the color filters is represented by: α= D ×tan θ where, θ represents the incident angle of a light ray entering a corresponding microlens from the imaging plane, and D represents a distance between the first and second filters.