Patent ID: 9635301
Date: 2017-04-25
CPC Classifications: H01L,H04N

Claim:
1. A solid-state imaging device having a parallel transmission mode and a serial transmission mode, comprising: a pixel array; an AD converting unit converting each of a plurality of analog signals read from the pixel array to a plurality of digital signals and outputting the digital signals; first and second output terminals; first and second single-end drivers which are activated in the parallel transmission mode and, on the basis of the digital signals, output first and second single-end signals to the first and second output terminals, respectively; and a differential driver which is activated in the serial transmission mode and, on the basis of the digital signals, outputs a positive signal and a negative signal constructing differential signals to the first and second output terminals, respectively; and a level shifter shifting a voltage level of each of the digital signals and supplying the resultant signal having the shifted voltage level to a corresponding single-end driver of the first and second single-end drivers in the parallel transmission mode.