Patent ID: 8063967

Claim:
A driving method of driving a solid-state image sensor that includes a pixel array in which a plurality of pixels are two-dimensionally arrayed, a vertical scanning circuit that selects a row of the pixel array, and a horizontal scanning circuit that sequentially selects a column of a plurality of columns of the pixel array in a horizontal scanning period, each pixel including a photo-electric converter, a transfer switch that transfers charges from the photo-electric converter to a charge-voltage conversion node, an amplifier that outputs, to a vertical signal line of a column to which the pixel belongs, a signal corresponding to the charges transferred to the charge-voltage conversion node, the method comprising: a first step of selecting an n-th row of the pixel array by the vertical scanning circuit, the selecting of the n-th row causing the amplifiers of the pixels of the n-th row to output signals to the vertical signal lines of the plurality of columns; and a second step of sequentially selecting a column of the plurality of columns of the pixel array by the horizontal scanning circuit during a horizontal scanning period for the n-th row, the second step including an unselecting step of supplying the charge-voltage conversion nodes of the pixels of the n-th row with a voltage that sets the charge-voltage conversion nodes of the pixels of the n-th row in a unselected state, during at least part of the horizontal scanning period for the n-th row, wherein the unselecting step includes supplying the charge-voltage conversion nodes of the pixels of the n-th row with the voltage that sets the charge-voltage conversion nodes of the pixels of the n-th row in the unselected state, during an entirety of the horizontal scanning period for the n-th row.