US 12,133,007 B2
Solid-state image pickup device and electronic apparatus
Sozo Yokogawa, Kanagawa (JP); and Isao Hirota, Kanagawa (JP)
Assigned to Sony Group Corporation, Tokyo (JP)
Filed by Sony Group Corporation, Tokyo (JP)
Filed on Jun. 1, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/327,781.
Application 18/327,781 is a continuation of application No. 17/572,541, filed on Jan. 10, 2022, granted, now 11,711,629.
Application 17/572,541 is a continuation of application No. 16/291,427, filed on Mar. 4, 2019, granted, now 11,252,360.
Application 16/291,427 is a continuation of application No. 15/534,621, granted, now 10,284,799, previously published as PCT/JP2015/084389, filed on Dec. 8, 2015.
Claims priority of application No. 2014-256044 (JP), filed on Dec. 18, 2014; and application No. 2015-032578 (JP), filed on Feb. 23, 2015.
Prior Publication US 2023/0308781 A1, Sep. 28, 2023
Int. Cl. H04N 25/704 (2023.01); G02B 7/34 (2021.01); G02B 7/38 (2021.01); H01L 27/146 (2006.01); H04N 23/10 (2023.01); H04N 23/67 (2023.01); H04N 25/13 (2023.01); H04N 25/702 (2023.01)
CPC H04N 25/704 (2023.01) [G02B 7/34 (2013.01); G02B 7/38 (2013.01); H01L 27/14605 (2013.01); H01L 27/14621 (2013.01); H01L 27/14623 (2013.01); H01L 27/14627 (2013.01); H04N 23/10 (2023.01); H04N 23/67 (2023.01); H04N 25/134 (2023.01); H04N 25/702 (2023.01); H01L 27/1463 (2013.01)] 19 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A light detecting device comprising a plurality of pixels disposed in rows and columns, the plurality of pixels comprising:
a first pixel disposed in a first row;
a second pixel disposed adjacent to the first pixel and disposed in the first row;
a third pixel disposed adjacent to the first pixel; and
a fourth pixel disposed adjacent to the second pixel,
wherein the first pixel and the second pixel comprise a shared on-chip lens,
wherein the third pixel comprises a first individual on-chip lens,
wherein the fourth pixel comprises a second individual on-chip lens,
wherein the first individual on-chip lens overlaps the first pixel in a plan view,
wherein the second individual on-chip lens overlaps the second pixel in the plan view,
wherein each of the first pixel and the second pixel comprises a phase-difference detection pixel, and
wherein each phase-difference detection pixel includes only a single photoelectric converter.