Patent ID: 8614758

Claim:
A solid-state imaging device comprising: a substrate; a substrate voltage supply that applies a first potential to the substrate during a light receiving period and applies a second potential to the substrate during a no-light receiving period; and a plurality of pixels each including a light receiving portion that is on a surface of the substrate and generates signal charges in response to received light, a storage capacitor that is adjacent to the light receiving portion and stores and holds the signal charges generated in and transferred from the light receiving portion when the first potential is applied to the substrate, a dark current suppressing portion that is on the light receiving portion and the storage capacitor, an electronic shutter adjusting layer that is formed in a region facing the light receiving portion in the substrate and set apart from the storage capacitor as far as a predetermined offset region and adjusts potential distribution in the substrate so that the signal charges generated in the light receiving portion when the second potential is applied to the substrate are swept to a rear surface side of the substrate, a readout gate portion that reads out the signal charges stored in the storage capacitor, and a vertical transfer register that transfers the signal charges read out by the readout gate portion in a vertical direction.