Patent ID: 6630957
Filing Date: 2003-10-07
Classification: H04N

Abstract:
A solid state imaging apparatus comprising:an imaging unit including two-dimensionally arranged plural pixels; a shift register containing plural serially connected registers including registers respectively corresponding to rows or columns of said imaging unit, for successively transmitting a supplied driving signal in accordance with each clock; and a driver unit including plural selecting circuits provided correspondingly to the rows or columns of said imaging unit in the same number as the number of the rows or columns, for executing a read operation or a reset operation in pixels belonging to a row or column selected in accordance with an output of a register included in said shift register, wherein each of said selecting circuits receives an output of one register, among the registers of said shift register, corresponding to a row or a column corresponding to said selecting circuit and an output of another register disposed away from said corresponding register by a predetermined number of stages in said shift register, and when the output of said corresponding register is said driving signal, selects a read operation or a reset operation in accordance with the output of said another register and executes said selected operation in the pixels of the corresponding row or column.