Patent ID: 8102441

Claim:
A solid-state imaging apparatus comprising: a mode setting section configured to set a first read mode and a second read mode; a pixel section with a plurality of pixels arranged into two dimensions, wherein each of the plurality of pixels outputs any of a first signal and a second signal, and wherein each of the plurality of pixels has a photoelectric conversion section configured to effect photoelectric conversion, an accumulation section configured to temporarily store a signal generated at said photoelectric conversion section, a transfer means configured to transfer said signal of said photoelectric conversion section to said accumulation section, a reset means configured to reset said accumulation section, an amplification means configured to amplify and output an electric potential of said accumulation section, and a select means configured to select said amplification means; and a noise suppressing circuit configured to work out noise suppressed signal from a difference between the first signal and the second signal, and suppress a variance of a signal at the time of reset of each pixel, wherein the difference between the first signal and the second signal in the first read mode is opposite in polarity to the difference between the first signal and the second signal in the second read mode, wherein the noise suppressing circuit has a switch section configured to switch a connection in the noise suppressing circuit such that the noise suppressed signal in the first read mode is same in polarity as the noise suppressed signal in the second read mode.