Patent ID: 7675559
Filing Date: 2010-03-09
Classification: H04N

Abstract:
1. A method of driving an image sensing apparatus that includes a plurality of two-dimensionally arrayed pixels each having a light-receiving portion for generating and accumulating electric charge in accordance with amount of incident light and a storage portion for temporarily storing a charge signal that has accumulated in the light-receiving portion, and an output unit that outputs the charge signal, which has been transferred to the storage portions, successively pixel by pixel, said method comprising: a reset step of resetting the light-receiving portions and storage portions successively by prescribed unit of pixels; a transfer step of transferring the charge signal, which has accumulated in the light-receiving portions, to the storage portions successively by the prescribed unit of pixels after said reset step; and a read-out step of reading out the charge signal, which has been transferred to the storage portions, via the output unit successively by the prescribed unit of pixels, wherein the transfer step of a second line of pixels begins while the read-out step of a first line of pixels adjacent to the second line of pixels is being performed.