Patent ID: 7906752

Claim:
A solid-state imaging apparatus comprising: a pixel section having a plurality of pixels two-dimensionally arranged into a matrix, each pixel containing a photoelectric conversion section for converting an incident light into signal electric charges, an accumulation section for accumulating said signal electric charges, a transfer section for transferring said signal electric charges to said accumulation section, an amplification section for amplifying said signal electric charges accumulated at said accumulation section and outputting it onto a signal output line as a pixel signal, and a reset section for resetting the accumulation section by supplying a potential retained at a reset line to said accumulation section; a correlation double sampling circuit connected to one end of said signal output line for suppressing a noise signal associated with reset operation by said reset section, contained in said pixel signal outputted onto said signal output line; and a control section where, of a first one of said pixels and a second one of said pixels connected to the same one of said signal output line, when said first pixel is determined as a pixel subject to reset operation for obtaining an output of said pixel signal corresponding to a first potential supplied by said reset section, a voltage level of said same one signal output line at the time of said reset operation is set with using a pixel signal corresponding to a second potential supplied by said reset section of said second pixel; wherein said second pixel is a pixel located in the vicinity of said first pixel.