Patent ID: 8749685

Claim:
A solid-state imaging device comprising: light receiving portions that accumulate signal charges corresponding to incident light, the light receiving portions comprising first predetermined light receiving portions and second predetermined light receiving portions, wherein the first predetermined light receiving portions include no more than one-third of a total number of light receiving portions of the solid-state imaging device; charge transfer portions that are formed to be adjacent to the light receiving portions so as to transfer the signal charges read out from the light receiving portions; readout electrodes to which a readout voltage for reading out the signal charges accumulated in the light receiving portions to the charge transfer portions is applied; and a controller that is configured to apply a first readout voltage to the readout electrodes corresponding to the first predetermined light receiving portions during an exposure period and while the signal charges are accumulated in the first predetermined light receiving portions and the second predetermined light receiving portions, wherein an exposure period associated with each of the first predetermined light receiving portions and the second predetermined light receiving portions terminate at a same time such that the signal charges of the first predetermined light receiving portions and the second predetermined light receiving portions having exposure periods different from one another are subjected to a readout sequence at a same time.