Patent ID: 6222986
Filing Date: 2001-04-24
Classification: H04N

Abstract:
A solid-state electronic image sensing device, comprising:photoelectric transducers arrayed in a plurality of columns in the horizontal direction and a plurality of rows in the vertical direction;vertical transfer lines extending in the vertical direction adjacent said columns of photoelectric transducers for transferring, in the vertical direction, signal charge that has accumulated in said photoelectric transducers;a horizontal transfer line for transferring, in the horizontal direction, signal charge that has been transferred by said vertical transfer lines;a drain for sweeping out signal charge that has been transferred by said vertical transfer lines;first drive control means for driving said vertical transfer lines in such a manner that signal charge that has accumulated in all of said photoelectric transducers is transferred to said horizontal transfer line when all pixels are read out for reproducing a high-quality image; andsecond drive control means which, at time of movie readout for movie reproduction, is for driving said vertical transfer lines in such a manner that:readout of signal charge is divided into readout of signal charge for a first field and readout of signal charge for a second field;in readout of signal charge for the first field, signal charge that has accumulated in photoelectric transducers representing pixels in one of horizontally extending odd rows and even rows is transferred to said horizontal transfer line and signal charge that has accumulated in photoelectric transducers representing pixels in the other of the odd rows and even rows is transferred to said drain; andin readout of signal charge for the second field , signal charge that has accumulated in said photoelectric transducers of said other of the odd rows and even rows is transferred to said horizontal transfer line and s ignal charge that has accumulated in said photoelectric transducers of said one of the odd rows and even rows is transferred to said drain.