Patent ID: 7035482
Filing Date: 2006-04-25
Classification: H01L,H04N

Abstract:
1. A solid-state image-sensing device comprising: a plurality of pixels arranged in a two-dimensional matrix consisting of a plurality of rows and columns; a first selector for selecting, assuming that one of directions along the rows and along the columns is called a first direction and another a second direction, pixels arranged in one of the lines along the first direction; a second selector for selecting pixels arranged in one of the lines along the second direction; a controller for controlling the first and second selectors; a plurality of selection lines each connected to the pixels arranged in one of the lines along the second direction; a plurality of signal lines each connected to the pixels arranged in one of the lines along the first direction so as to receive an output signal from each pixel connected thereto; and a plurality of reset lines each connected to the pixels arranged in one of the lines along the first direction so as to feed a reset signal to each pixel connected thereto; wherein each pixel comprises: a photoelectric converter for generating an electric signal commensurate to an amount of light incident thereon; a first transistor having a first electrode, a second electrode, and a control electrode, the first transistor having the first electrode thereof connected to a corresponding one of the selection lines, having the second electrode thereof connected to a corresponding one of the signal lines, and receiving at the control electrode thereof an output signal from the photoelectric converter; and a second transistor having a first electrode, a second electrode, and a control electrode, the second transistor having the first electrode thereof connected to a corresponding one of the selection lines, having the second electrode thereof connected to the control electrode of the first transistor, and having the control electrode thereof connected to a corresponding one of the reset lines.