US 11,791,368 B2
Image pickup element, image pickup apparatus, and method of manufacturing image pickup element
Takeshi Yanagita, Tokyo (JP); Yasushi Tateshita, Kanagawa (JP); and Kazunobu Ota, Tokyo (JP)
Assigned to Sony Corporation, Tokyo (JP)
Filed by Sony Corporation, Tokyo (JP)
Filed on Jun. 22, 2020, as Appl. No. 16/907,640.
Application 16/907,640 is a continuation of application No. 15/512,246, granted, now 10,825,858, previously published as PCT/JP2015/072304, filed on Aug. 6, 2015.
Claims priority of application No. 2014-193497 (JP), filed on Sep. 24, 2014.
Prior Publication US 2020/0321389 A1, Oct. 8, 2020
Int. Cl. H01L 27/146 (2006.01); H01L 27/148 (2006.01); H04N 25/76 (2023.01)
CPC H01L 27/14692 (2013.01) [H01L 27/1464 (2013.01); H01L 27/14605 (2013.01); H01L 27/14623 (2013.01); H01L 27/14627 (2013.01); H01L 27/14643 (2013.01); H01L 27/14649 (2013.01); H01L 27/14685 (2013.01); H01L 27/14689 (2013.01); H04N 25/76 (2023.01); H01L 27/148 (2013.01); H01L 27/14621 (2013.01)] 5 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A light detecting device comprising:
a first pixel unit comprising a first lens and a first photoelectric conversion element, and
a second pixel unit comprising a second lens and a second photoelectric conversion element,
wherein the first pixel unit and the second pixel unit are positioned in an array of pixel units at different distances from a center of the array of pixel units,
wherein a center of the first lens and a center of a first adjacent lens in the array of pixel units are separated by a first distance in a plan view, and a center of the second lens and a center of a second adjacent lens in the array of pixel units are separated by a second distance in the plan view, and
wherein the first distance and the second distance are different.