Patent ID: 8049803

Claim:
A solid state image pickup device comprising: a semiconductor substrate of a first conductivity type; a well of a second conductivity type opposite to the first conductivity type formed in a surface layer of said semiconductor substrate; a light reception region formed in said well and including a plurality of charge accumulation regions of the first conductivity type formed in a matrix shape for accumulating signal charges generated in correspondence with an amount of incidence light and a plurality of vertical CCDs formed along each column of said charge accumulation regions for reading the signal charges accumulated in said charge accumulation regions and transferring the signal charges in a column direction; a horizontal CCD formed in said well and coupled to ends of said vertical CCDs for transferring the signal charges transferred from said vertical CCDs; a peripheral circuit formed in said well in partial regions of said light reception region and said horizontal CCD; a shield layer formed on said semiconductor substrate including a partial area above said peripheral circuit, made of conductive material and surrounding said light reception region, said shield layer being electrically connected to said semiconductor substrate of the first conductivity type and being in contact with the semiconductor substrate of the first conductivity type; a support disposed on said shield layer through an insulating layer and made of conductive material, and a translucent member placed on said support.