Patent ID: 7557843
Filing Date: 2009-07-07
Classification: H04N

Abstract:
1. A solid state image pickup device comprising: a semiconductor substrate defining a two-dimensional surface; a number of photoelectric conversion elements disposed in a light receiving area of said semiconductor substrate in a matrix shape and in a first number of rows and a second number of columns; analog digital converters, each formed for each column of said photoelectric conversion elements in an area of said semiconductor substrate other than the light receiving area, said analog digital converters converting analog image data from said photoelectric conversion elements into digital image data; a non-volatile memory formed in an area of said semiconductor substrate other than the light receiving area at a succeeding stage of said analog digital converters, said non-volatile memory having memory units, each corresponding to one of the photoelectric conversion elements, and recording the digital image data; and data register configured between the analog-digital converters and the non-volatile memory, which writes the digital image data to the non-volatile memory, reads out the digital image data stored in the non-volatile memory and horizontally transfers the read-out digital image data.