Patent ID: 9001242
Filing Date: 2015-04-07
Classification: H01L,H04N

Abstract:
1. A solid-state imaging device comprising: a plurality of pixels arranged in rows and columns in an imaging region; a plurality of unit cells each including n pixels from among the pixels as one unit arranged in rows and columns in the imaging region, n being a natural number greater than or equal to 2; a row scanning unit configured to perform pixel reset scanning by scanning the pixels in the imaging region on a row basis; and a reset scanning register for holding a parameter which is for determining the timing to complete a pixel reset operation on each of the rows and is determined according to a running quality of a mechanical curtain shutter, wherein each of the unit cells includes: the pixel reset scanning is processing in which the pixel reset operation is performed on a row basis, the pixel reset operation being processing in which one of the transfer transistors and the reset transistor are turned ON to reset the photodiode corresponding to the one of the transfer transistors, and the row scanning unit is configured to complete the pixel reset operation simultaneously on a plurality of rows to which the n pixels contained in the unit cell belong when performing the pixel reset scanning in a curtain shutter synchronous mode in which exposure of the imaging region to the incident light is started by the pixel reset scanning and ended by blocking the incident light by the mechanical curtain shutter provided on an optical path of the incident light, and wherein, in the curtain shutter synchronous mode, the row scanning unit is configured to determine timing to complete the pixel reset operation, according to the running quality of the mechanical curtain shutter, and wherein, in the curtain shutter synchronous mode, the row scanning unit is configured to perform the pixel reset scanning based on the parameter held by the reset scanning register.