US 11,930,287 B2
Imaging element and electronic device
Hiroshi Katayama, Kanagawa (JP)
Assigned to Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corporation, Kanagawa (JP)
Appl. No. 17/608,519
Filed by SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS CORPORATION, Kanagawa (JP)
PCT Filed May 1, 2020, PCT No. PCT/JP2020/018455
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Nov. 3, 2021,
PCT Pub. No. WO2020/230675, PCT Pub. Date Nov. 19, 2020.
Claims priority of application No. 2019-090200 (JP), filed on May 10, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2022/0232183 A1, Jul. 21, 2022
Int. Cl. H04N 25/702 (2023.01); H01L 27/146 (2006.01); H04N 25/13 (2023.01); H04N 25/42 (2023.01); H04N 25/46 (2023.01); H04N 25/704 (2023.01); G02B 3/00 (2006.01)
CPC H04N 25/702 (2023.01) [H01L 27/14621 (2013.01); H01L 27/14623 (2013.01); H01L 27/14627 (2013.01); H01L 27/14645 (2013.01); H04N 25/42 (2023.01); H04N 25/46 (2023.01); H04N 25/704 (2023.01); G02B 3/0056 (2013.01); H04N 25/134 (2023.01)] 19 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An imaging element, comprising:
a light receiving unit that includes:
a plurality of photoelectric conversion elements arranged in a lattice-pattern array, and
a plurality of lenses provided for respective sets of elements on a one-to-one basis, each set of elements including two or more of the plurality of photoelectric conversion elements arranged adjacent to each other, and
a plurality of pixel blocks each having n×n photoelectric conversion elements receiving light having a same wavelength band, among the plurality of photoelectric conversion elements, and arranged in a lattice-pattern array,
wherein, in the light receiving unit,—among a plurality of pixel sets each including the set of elements and one of the plurality of lenses provided in the set of elements, at least two pixel sets adjacent to each other are different from each other in pupil correction amount,
wherein the plurality of pixel blocks are arranged according to a pattern in which pixel blocks having photoelectric conversion elements receiving light having the same wavelength band are not adjacent to each other, and
wherein at least one of the plurality of pixel blocks includes two of the pixel sets that are different from each other in the pupil correction amount,
wherein the n is an integer of 3 or more, and
wherein at least one of the plurality of pixel blocks includes three or more of the pixel sets that are different from each other in the pupil correction amount.