Patent ID: 9300886
Filing Date: 2016-03-29
CPC Classification: H04N

Claim Text:
1. A solid-state imaging device comprising: unit cells arranged in a matrix form in a pixel array, each of the unit cells including a photoelectric conversion element that generates signal charges based on incident light, a signal detector that detects a signal of the photoelectric conversion element and an amplifier transistor connected to the signal detector; vertical signal lines, each of the vertical signal lines supplied with a reset signal of each of the unit cells in a reset state of the signal detector and a pixel signal of each of the unit cells in a signal charge holding state of the signal detector via each of the amplifier transistors; first interconnects, each of the first interconnects connected to each of the signal detectors via each of capacitance elements; second interconnects, each of the second interconnects connected between each of the signal detectors and each of the amplifier transistors; and switch elements, each of the switch elements provided between each of the vertical signal lines and each of the first interconnects, wherein unit cells arranged in a column direction among the unit cells arranged in the matrix form are connected to a common vertical line among the vertical signal lines and a common first interconnect among the first interconnects, and a selected first interconnect among the first interconnects is electrically isolated from a selected vertical signal line among the vertical signal lines when the reset signal is supplied from a selected unit cell among the unit cells to the selected vertical signal line, the selected first interconnect is connected to the selected vertical signal line before the reset signal is sampled, and the pixel signal is supplied from the selected unit cell to the selected vertical signal line and the pixel signal supplied to the selected vertical signal line is sampled while the selected first interconnect is connected to the selected vertical signal line.