Patent ID: 7982790
Filing Date: 2011-07-19
Classification: H01L,H04N

Abstract:
1. A solid-state imaging apparatus, comprising: a solid-state imager including a semiconductor substrate, photodiodes which are two-dimensionally formed on said semiconductor substrate, and vertical charge-coupled devices (CCDs) having at least one arranged read-out gate and non-read-out gate for each of said photodiodes, the read-out gate being for reading out accumulated electric charge from an associated photodiode, and the non-read-out gate being not for reading out accumulated electric charge from the associated photodiode; and a driving pulse controller operable to control said solid-state imager by applying driving pulses to respective read-out gates and non-read-out gates at predetermined timings, wherein said driving pulse controller is operable to: apply driving pulses sequentially to said respective read-out gates in order to change said respective read-out gates from stand-by LOW-voltage states to MIDDLE-voltage states; and apply a driving pulse for maintaining a LOW-voltage state to at least one of non-read-out gates adjacent to a last read-out gate in an order of a change among said non-read-out gates, during the change of said respective read-out gates starting with a first read-out gate and ending with the last read-out gate.