Patent ID: 7068315

Claim:
A solid-state imaging device comprising: a pixel section in which unit pixels are arranged in matrix form and a signal of each pixel is output as an electrical signal; a vertical driving section including a vertical scanning circuit for selecting, on a row basis, pixels from which to read out signals, and a vertical shutter scanning circuit for selecting, on a row basis, pixels for which to perform a shutter operation prior to selection of a read pixel row by the vertical scanning circuit; and a horizontal scanning section including a horizontal scanning circuit for sequentially selecting the pixels of the read pixel row selected by the vertical scanning circuit and a shutter pixel row selected by the vertical shutter scanning circuit, and a horizontal shutter scanning circuit for selecting, on a pixel basis, a pixel for which to perform a shutter operation prior to the pixel selection by the horizontal scanning circuit, wherein a horizontal selection pulse that is output in selecting a first pixel by the horizontal scanning circuit or the horizontal shutter scanning circuit also serves as a read pulse for a second pixel that is adjacent to the first pixel in a column direction.