Patent 7683410 was granted and assigned to Hoya on March, 2010 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
An image pickup device includes a plurality of photoelectric transducers; and a diffusion-reflection layer provided in front of the plurality of photoelectric transducers, wherein a part of light incident on the diffusion-reflection layer is reflected and dispersed therefrom, and the remainder of the incident light is transmitted through the diffusion-reflection layer so as to be incident on the plurality of photoelectric transducers.