Patent ID: 8390726

Claim:
A solid-state imaging device comprising: a plurality of pixels, each pixel including (i) a light receiving unit to perform photoelectric conversion, (ii) an optical waveguide buried in an insulating layer located above said light receiving unit and provided for introducing light into said optical waveguide, and (iii) an on-chip lens above said optical waveguide; a basic cell having two or more of said pixels that share a floating diffusion; and a transistor shared by said two or more pixels in said basic cell and arranged outside of said two or more pixels, wherein, said light receiving unit is connected to said floating diffusion shared by said two or more pixels in said basic cell through a transfer gate, and said on-chip lenses of said pixels are arranged substantially at regular intervals, said optical waveguide includes a first optical waveguide and a second optical waveguide, said first optical waveguide is formed so that a position thereof in a surface of said solid-state imaging device is located at a position shifted from a center of said light receiving unit to said transistor and within said light receiving unit, and said second optical waveguide is formed on an upper side of said first optical waveguide so that a position of said second optical waveguide in the surface of said solid-state imaging device is located at a position shifted from the center of said light receiving unit to said transistor and within said light receiving unit.