Patent ID: 7209170
Filing Date: 2007-04-24
Classification: H04N

Abstract:
1. A solid-state electronic image pickup apparatus comprising: an image sensor having a lot of photoelectric conversion devices two dimensionally arranged, wherein a signal charge accumulation time period and readout timing of the signal charge are individually controllable for each photoelectric conversion device; and a drive circuit for controlling, in a specified mode in which signal charges are read out from a plurality of specified photoelectric conversion devices which are a part of whole photoelectric conversion devices of said image sensor, reset timing and readout timing of the signal charge for all specified photoelectric conversion devices successively and at a predetermined time interval, such that the signal charge accumulation time periods assigned to each of all specified photoelectric conversion devices are equal to each other and include a common time period when the signal charge accumulation time period of all specified photoelectric conversion devices are partially overlapped with each other.