Image pickup apparatus

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2006-11-21

2006-11-21

Moe, Aung (Department: 2618)

Television

Camera, system and detail

Optics

C348S302000

Reexamination Certificate

active

07139028

ABSTRACT:
There is provided an image pickup apparatus in which a plurality of pixel areas in which pixels each having a photoelectric conversion unit are arranged two-dimensionally, are arranged on a single semiconductor chip to be adjacent to each other through a predetermined space, and a plurality of microlenses are formed on the plurality of pixels areas and on the predetermined spaces between the plurality of pixel areas.

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