Patent ID: 8625011

Claim:
A solid-state image taking device comprising: a pixel section including a plurality of unit pixels laid out in a pixel matrix and to serve as unit pixels which have read sections and are each provided with a pixel opening prescribed by an optical-path limiting section created on a semiconductor substrate, an opto-electric conversion section and an electric-charge holding section; and a scan driving section configured to control an operation to transfer electric charge from said opto-electric conversion section to said electric-charge holding section at the same time for said unit pixels in a pixel area in said pixel matrix determined in advance and to scan and drive said read sections in one scan direction, wherein, on each pixel column included in said pixel area determined in advance to serve as a pixel column having said unit pixels laid out in said scan direction, said opto-electric conversion section and said electric-charge holding section are laid out alternately and repeatedly, and on each of said pixel columns in said pixel area determined in advance, two said electric-charge holding sections of two adjacent ones of said unit pixels are laid out disproportionately toward one side of said scan direction with respect to said optical-path limiting section or said opto-electric conversion section so that, the closer the unit pixel to a matrix row scanned last, the smaller the ratio of the quantity of light propagating to said electric-charge holding section of said unit pixel to the quantity of light incident to said unit pixel.