Patent ID: 7719594

Claim:
A solid-state imaging device, comprising: photoelectric conversion components disposed two-dimensionally corresponding to pixels, forming an effective pixel region and an OB region provided on one or both sides in the horizontal direction of the effective pixel region; vertical transfer components provided corresponding to respective columns of two-dimensionally arranged pixels to vertically transfer signal charges read out from the pixels; and a horizontal transfer component for horizontally transferring the signal charges received from the vertical transfer components, wherein vertical final stages, which are the transfer stages closest to the horizontal transfer component in the vertical transfer components, have identical transfer electrode configurations repeated every m (m is an integer of 2 or greater) columns in a region between the horizontal transfer component and an effective pixel region, the vertical final stages are made up of six phases of the transfer electrodes, third and fifth phases of the vertical final stages in a region between the horizontal transfer component and the effective pixel region are constituted by independent transfer electrodes that are independent of other columns and independent of the third and fifth phase transfer electrodes of the other vertical transfer stages, so that an operation of transferring from the vertical final stages to the horizontal transfer component is controlled independently of the other columns, first, second, fourth and sixth phases of the vertical final stages in the region between the horizontal transfer component and a region including the OB region are constituted by common transfer electrodes that are common to all of the columns in first, second, fourth and sixth phases.