Solid-state color imaging device

DETAILED DESCRIPTION Therefore, the object of the present invention is to provide a solid-state color imaging device which can prevent the generation of flicker in the playback picture caused by leakage of information charge between elements.
In order to achieve the aforementioned objective, a solid-state color imaging device according to the present invention comprises a plurality of elements aligned vertically and horizontally, each element sensitive to particular color, and white band filter means extending between rows of horizontally aligned elements.
According to a preferred embodiment, a solid-state color imaging device comprises a semiconductor substrate having a primary layer; channel separation means provided in said semiconductor substrate for separating said primary layer (1) into channel areas extending parallel to each other; transfer electrodes provided on said semiconductor substrate in a direction orthogonal to said channel areas for controlling the potential in said semiconductor substrate; a color separation filter means provided over said transfer electrodes, said color separation filter means being divided vertically along said channel areas and horizontally along opposite sides of said transfer electrodes into a plurality of segments which are aligned vertically and horizontally, each divided segment passing incident light of a specific wavelength; and white band filter means extending between rows of horizontally aligned segments.
According to the present invention, by making transparent to the incident light along the top and bottom boundary area of each element at which leakage of the information charge is expected, the information charge leaking out from each element can be made equivalent to the information charge leaking in to each element.
Thus, the charge which leaked out from each element can be compensated by the charge leaking in to each element, thereby canceling the error component in the information charge of each element, and making it possible to obtain a information charge with low error