Patent ID: 7253399

Claim:
A solid-state image sensor comprising: light-receiving elements arranged in a light-receiving area; micro-lenses corresponding to the light-receiving elements; in-layer lenses between said micro-lenses and said light-receiving elements; and a flattening film on said micro-lenses, wherein, in a central portion of said light-receiving area a corresponding one of said micro-lenses is directly above a corresponding one of said light-receiving elements, and in other portions of said light-receiving area corresponding ones of said micro-lenses are offset from directly above corresponding ones of said light-receiving elements towards a center of said light receiving area by an amount that is increased as said other portions are increased in distance from the center of said light receiving area, and wherein, in said central portion of said light-receiving area a corresponding one of said in-layers lenses is directly above said corresponding one of said light-receiving elements, and in said other portions of said light-receiving area corresponding area corresponding ones of said in-layers are offset from directly above said corresponding ones of said light receiving elements towards the center of said light receiving area by an amount that is increased as said other portions are increased in distance from the center of said light receiving area, with the amount of offset of each of said corresponding ones of said micro-lenses being greater than the amount of offset of a respective one of said corresponding ones of said in-layer lenses.