Patent ID: 8106431

Claim:
A solid state imaging apparatus comprising: a plurality of photodiodes arranged in an array; a plurality of floating diffusion sections each being connected to ones of the photodiodes via each of a plurality of transfer transistors; a plurality of read-out lines each being selectively connected to at least two of the transfer transistors; a plurality of reset transistors each being connected to one of the plurality of floating diffusion sections; a plurality of reset pulse lines each being connected to at least one of the plurality of reset transistors; and a plurality of pixel amplifier transistors each detecting and outputting the potential of each said floating diffusion section, wherein the plurality of photodiodes includes a first photodiode, a second photodiode and a third photodiode, the first photodiode is in row n, where n is a positive integer, the second photodiode is in row n+1, the third photodiode is in row n+2, the plurality of read-out lines includes a first read-out line and a second read-out line, the first read-out line and the second read-out line are disposed between the row n and the row n+1, one of the plurality of reset pulse lines is disposed between the row n+1 and the row n+2, one of the plurality of pixel amplifier transistors is disposed between the row n+1 and the row n+2.