Patent ID: 9344654
Filing Date: 2016-05-17
CPC Classification: H01L,H04N

Claim Text:
1. A solid-state imaging device comprising: a semiconductor substrate; a pixel portion which includes pixels in rows and columns above the semiconductor substrate; and a plurality of column signal lines provided for each of the columns of the pixel portion, the pixels each including: a photoelectric converting film; a pixel electrode disposed along a surface of the photoelectric converting film, the surface facing the semiconductor substrate; a transparent electrode disposed along a surface of the photoelectric converting film opposite the surface along which the pixel electrode is disposed; a charge storage portion electrically connected to the pixel electrode, the charge storage portion storing signal charge from the photoelectric converting film; an amplifier transistor which outputs a pixel signal dependent on quantity of the signal charge in the charge storage portion; a reset transistor which resets electric potential of the charge storage portion; and a selection transistor which determines a timing at which the amplifier transistor is to output the pixel signal, the solid-state imaging device further comprising a control unit configured to apply to a gate terminal of the selection transistor a first voltage which places the selection transistor in a conductive state and apply to a gate terminal of the reset transistor a second voltage which places the reset transistor in a non-conductive state in a first time period where the pixel signal dependent on the quantity of the signal charge in the photoelectric converting film is read out, and apply to the gate terminal of the selection transistor a third voltage which is an intermediate value between the first voltage and the second voltage in a second time period where the charge storage portion is reset.