Patent ID: 7786426

Claim:
A solid-state imaging device including a substrate of which a surface is provided with a pixel area where a plurality of pixels are arranged, and a surrounding area that is positioned around the pixel area and that includes a surrounding circuit, the solid-state imaging device comprising a color filter facing the substrate so as to receive the light from the subject image in a surface corresponding to the surface of the substrate and to allow the light to transmit therethrough onto the surface of the substrate, wherein: (a) the color filter comprises a first colored layer that has high light transmittance in a first wavelength band and that allows the light from the subject image to transmit therethrough, a second colored layer that has high light transmittance in a second wavelength band different from the first wavelength band and that allows the light from the subject image to transmit therethrough, a third colored layer that has high light transmittance in a third wavelength band different from the first and second wavelength bands and that allows the light from the subject image to transmit therethrough, and a fourth colored layer having a transmittance lower than the transmittance of any of the first to third colored layers; (b) a plurality of colored arrays of segments of the first, second, and third colored layers are arranged in the surface corresponding to the surface of the substrate, a first part of said plurality of colored arrays being placed in the pixel area and a second part being placed in the surrounding area, the colored arrays corresponding to the plurality of pixels in the pixel area; and (c) the fourth colored layer is laminated on the colored arrays to cover only the second part.