Patent ID: 7859587

Claim:
A solid-state image pickup device, comprising a pixel array region, on a semiconductor substrate, where a plurality of pixels are two-dimensionally disposed in a row direction and a column direction, wherein: each of the pixels includes: a photoelectric conversion region; and a microlens for converging light into the photoelectric conversion region, disposition of the microlens is determined for each of the pixels, the microlenses are two-dimensionally disposed with different pitches, the microlenses are disposed in a disposition region such that an outer shape of the disposition region has at least one curve which connects two adjacent vertexes of the disposition region and is concave with respect to a line passing through the two adjacent vertexes, and a distance between a center of the microlens and a center of said each of the pixels is set so as to increase in accordance with an increase in an image height until the image height reaches a predetermined value and to be substantially constant after the image height exceeds the predetermined value.