Patent ID: 8363137

Claim:
An image sensing apparatus comprising on a single semiconductor substrate: a pixel array in which a plurality of pixels are arrayed two-dimensionally; a vertical scanning unit which scans a row in the pixel array, wherein the vertical scanning unit selects, in a first period, a row in the pixel array in synchronism with a clock; a horizontal scanning unit which scans, in a second period that starts during the first period, a column in the pixel array in synchronism with the clock; a counter which starts a counting operation to count the number of clock cycles before a start of the first period, and stops the counting operation before a start of the second period during the first period; and a generation unit which generates a first control signal for causing the vertical scanning unit to drive a pixel in the pixel array, the generation unit including a signal generation unit which generates a second control signal in accordance with the counted value output from the counter, and a delay unit which delays the second control signal to generate the first control signal and output the first control signal to the vertical scanning unit.