Patent ID: 6744539
Filing Date: 2004-06-01
Classification: H04N

Abstract:
A solid-state image pick-up apparatus comprising:a first charge transfer row for transferring electric charges acquired by a first light-receiving pixel row; a second charge transfer row for transferring electric charges acquired by a second light-receiving pixel row; a multiplex section for transferring the respective electric charges transferred from the first charge transfer row and second charge transfer row toward an electric-charge/voltage conversion means; and signal generation means for, in case of an alternately-output mode, applying signals in opposite phase to each other to a final stage of the first charge transfer row and a final stage of the second charge transfer row, respectively, and for, in case of an add-and-output mode, applying to the final stage of the second charge transfer row a signal for accumulating the electric charges until a transfer time when the electric charges to be added to each other are transferred by the second charge transfer row comes.