Patent ID: 8610809

Claim:
A solid-state imaging device comprising: a pixel unit in which plural pixels each having a photoelectric conversion element which converts light signals into electric signals and accumulates the electric signals according to exposure time are arranged in a matrix state; plural control lines for drive controlling the pixels; and a pixel drive unit controlling operation of the pixels to perform electronic shutter operation and reading of the pixel unit through the control lines, wherein the pixel drive unit outputs read row selection signals and shutter row selection signals of row addresses of read rows from which signals are read and shutter rows from which charges accumulated in the photoelectric conversion elements are swept out and reset in accordance with address signals, selects a unit of plural rows of plural successive rows by designating the lowest address signal and the highest address signal, wherein the pixel drive unit includes row units arranged so as to correspond to respective rows of row arrangement in the pixel unit, the row units being configured to output the read row selection signals, the shutter row selection signals and carry signals, and wherein, in each of the row units, the lowest address decoded signal of the read row, the highest address decoded signal of the read row, the lowest address decoded signal of the shutter row of a reading frame, the highest address decoded signal of the shutter row of the reading frame, the lowest address decoded signal of the shutter row of a next frame, the highest address decoded signal of the shutter rows of the next frame, and a carry signal of an adjacent row unit of a previous row are supplied, rows from a row designated by the lowest address decoded signal of the read row to a row designated by the highest address decoded signal of the read row are selected in the unit of plural rows, rows from a row designated by the lowest address decoded signal of the shutter row of the reading frame to a row designated by the highest address decoded signal of the shutter row of the reading frame as well as rows from a row designated by the lowest address decoded signal of the shutter row of the next frame to a row designated by the highest address decoded signal of the shutter row of the next frame are selected in the unit of plural rows.