Patent ID: 7554587

Claim:
A color solid-state image pickup device comprising: a plurality of light-receiving sections being arranged on the surface of a semiconductor substrate in a two-dimensional array; a plurality of complementary color filters, with one complementary color filter stacked on each of at least half of the plurality of light-receiving sections, each complementary color filter blocking incident light of one color of three primary colors, to thereby permit transmission of incident light of remaining two colors of the three primary colors; at least first and second color signal detecting layers which have the plurality of complementary color filters stacked thereon and are formed so as to be separated in a depthwise direction of the plurality of light-receiving sections, the first signal detecting layer detecting a color signal of one color of the light of two colors having passed through the plurality of complementary color filters, and the second signal detecting layer detecting a color signal of remaining one color of the light of two colors having passed through the plurality of complementary color filters; and a signal reading unit for reading the respective color signals in a distinguished manner, the signal reading unit being connected to the respective color signal detecting layers.