Patent ID: 7148524

Claim:
A solid-state imaging device, comprising: a plurality of light receiving sections provided in a matrix in a plurality of row and a plurality columns, each of the plurality of light receiving sections generating a charge in accordance with the amount of light received; a pixel area vertical transfer register section for transferring, column by column, the charges generated by the plurality of light receiving sections in a vertical direction; a dummy area vertical transfer register section for transferring, column by column in the vertical direction, the charges which have been transferred by the pixel area vertical transfer register section, the dummy area vertical transfer register section providing a control such that the transfer of the charges of at least one of the plurality of columns is performed in the same manner as the charges in the other columns in one case, and in a different manner from the transfer of the charges in the other columns in another case; and a horizontal transfer register section for transferring, in a horizontal direction, the charges which have been transferred from the dummy area vertical transfer register section.