Patent ID: 8120688

Claim:
A solid state imaging device, comprising: a plurality of pixels being arranged two-dimensionally and performing a photoelectric conversion on an incident light; vertical signal lines provided to correspond to each column of the plurality of pixels and to which output signals of the pixels of the column corresponding thereto are supplied; a sampling hold part sampling and holding signals corresponding to signals of each of the vertical signal lines in accordance with sampling control signals, and supplying the signals being held to horizontal signal lines in accordance with a horizontal scanning signal; a horizontal scanning part supplying the horizontal scanning signal to the sampling hold part; and a horizontal drive controlling part supplying a plurality of types of pulse signals which relate in reading the signals supplied from the sampling hold part to the horizontal signal lines, wherein the horizontal drive controlling part stops one or more types of pulse signals among the plurality of types of the pulse signals during predetermined intervals including signal sampling timings which are determined by the sampling control signals.