Patent 7245233 was granted and assigned to Mitsumi Electric on July, 2007 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
A light receiving device is disclosed that is able to reduce jitter and to improve detection resolution. The light receiving device has plural light receiving elements each having a rectangular light receiving area. The light receiving areas are connected to each other at vertices on diagonals thereof, and sides of the light receiving areas of neighboring light receiving elements are adjacent to each other.