Patent 11183524 was granted and assigned to Panasonic on November, 2021 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
An imaging device including a semiconductor substrate; pixels arranged on the semiconductor substrate in a first direction; and a signal line extending in the first direction. Each of the pixels includes a photoelectric converter generating signal charge by photoelectric conversion, a charge accumulation region that accumulates the signal charge output from the photoelectric converter, a first transistor that outputs a signal to the signal line according to an amount of the signal charge accumulated in the charge accumulation region, a capacity circuit that is coupled to a gate of the first transistor and that includes a first capacitive element, the first capacitive element including a first electrode, a second electrode and an insulating layer between the first electrode and the second electrode, at least one of the first electrode and the second electrode containing a metal. The first capacitive element is closer to the semiconductor substrate than the signal line.