Patent ID: 7864237

Claim:
A solid-state imaging device comprising: a plurality of pixels units, each of which converts an amount of incident light into an electric analog signal, and which are disposed in a plurality of columns so as to be staggered relative to and to deviate from adjacent pixels in a row direction or in a column direction; a plurality of analog-to-digital converting units, each of which converts an electric analog signal into a digital signal, and which are disposed along ends of said columns; a plurality of column signal lines associated with each of the plurality of pixel columns via which the electric analog signals of the pixel units of each of the plurality of pixel columns are output, and which are disposed along the pixel columns, and which are arranged in pairs; a plurality of switching circuit units coupled between said analog-to-digital converting units and said column signal lines, each switching unit selectively connecting one column signal line of a corresponding pair of column signal lines to a corresponding one of said analog-to-digital converting units, and each of which has an output side; a row scanning circuit that controls row addressing and row scanning of said pixel units so as to enable output of said electric analog signals from said pixel units onto said column signal lines; and a column scanning circuit that controls column addressing and column scanning of said pixel units so as to enable reading of said electric analog signals from said pixel units, wherein, the row scanning circuit is supplied with digital row address signals, and only the least significant bit of the row address signals is supplied to the row scanning circuit, before decoding of same, is used as a switching control signal for the switching circuit units.