Patent ID: 8730366

Claim:
A solid-state imaging device comprising: a plurality of photoelectric conversion units two-dimensionally arranged; a plurality of vertical transfer units, each of which is provided for a corresponding one of columns of the photoelectric conversion units, has a plurality of vertical transfer electrodes, and is configured to vertically transfer signal charges read from the photoelectric conversion units; a plurality of horizontal transfer units, each of which has a plurality of horizontal transfer electrodes, and is configured to horizontally transfer the signal charges transferred from the vertical transfer unit; and an intermediate transfer unit provided between the plurality of horizontal transfer units, having a branch transfer electrode, and configured to transfer the signal charges between the plurality of horizontal transfer units, wherein each of the horizontal transfer units includes a first horizontal transfer unit configured to receive the signal charges from the vertical transfer unit, and a second horizontal transfer unit configured to receive the signal charges from the first horizontal transfer unit, in the first horizontal transfer unit, one of the horizontal transfer electrodes includes a plurality of column direction electrodes that are disposed adjacent to one another in the vertical direction and transfer the signal charges via the intermediate transfer unit to the second horizontal transfer unit, and the plurality of vertical transfer electrodes, the plurality of horizontal transfer electrodes, and the branch transfer electrode are a single layer electrode.