Patent ID: 8828808

Claim:
A method of manufacturing a photoelectric conversion apparatus comprising: forming a thin film transistor on a substrate; forming a first interlayer insulation film on the thin film transistor; forming, on the first interlayer insulation film, a conductive film becoming a lower electrode, a silicon film of a photoelectric conversion element, and a transparent conductive film becoming an upper electrode; performing a defect inspection by an image recognition in at least one of patterning of the upper electrode, patterning of the silicon layer of the photoelectric conversion element, and patterning of the lower electrode, thereby registering an address corresponding to a pattern defect between the adjacent photoelectric conversion elements; performing a repair operation for a portion having the pattern defect between the photoelectric conversion elements of the registered address in at least one of the patterning of the upper electrode, the patterning of the silicon layer of the photoelectric conversion element and the patterning of the lower electrode to fix the pattern defect before forming a data line, a bias line and a light shield film; cutting at least one of a drain electrode and a source electrode in at least one of a portion between a drain electrode connecting with at least a semiconductor layer of the thin film transistor of the registered address and a drain electrode connecting with the lower electrode and a portion between a source electrode connecting with a data line and a source electrode connecting with the semiconductor layer; forming a second interlayer insulation film on the photoelectric conversion element, and forming the data line, a bias line and a light shield film on the second interlayer insulation film.