Photoelectric converting device with position-related conversion efficiency

摘要

A photoelectric converting device for use in an image pickup device is designed to obtain same photoelectric current from all photoelectric conversion elements which are disposed in array to form the photoelectric converting device. Variation in the quantity of incident light emitted from a light source on each element is compensated by intentionally varying the photoelectric conversion efficiency of each of a plurality of photoelectric conversion elements corresponding to its position in the array so that same photoelectric current flows through each element.