Patent ID: 7701498
Filing Date: 2010-04-20
Classification: H04N

Abstract:
1. A solid-state image pickup device comprising: a plurality of optoelectronic transducers arranged in an array in an effective pixel region; a plurality of vertical transfer sections each for reading charges from optoelectronic transducers belonging to a corresponding column among the plurality of optoelectronic transducers according to a charge read signal and vertically transferring the read charges according to a vertical transfer signal; a horizontal transfer section for horizontally transferring the charges transferred from the vertical transfer sections according to a horizontal transfer signal; a charge detection section for converting the charges horizontally transferred from the horizontal transfer section to signal voltages or signal currents and outputting the result; and a control section which outputs the charge read signal so as to read the charges only one time from each of the plurality of optoelectronic transducers per every field, and outputs the vertical transfer signal and the horizontal transfer signal so as to obtain either a first signal or a second signal every predetermined even number of continuous rows, and to obtain at least one first signal and at least one second signal from two columns adjacent to each other per every field, wherein: the first signal corresponds to a sum of charges from: an optoelectronic transducer, an optoelectronic transducer, the second signal corresponds to a sum of charges from: optoelectronic transducers,