Patent ID: 7466354

Claim:
An XY-addressing solid-state imaging apparatus comprising a solid-state imaging device having a plurality of two-dimensionally arranged pixels and horizontal and vertical scanning circuits for reading pixel signals of the solid-state imaging device; a shift register constructing at least one of said horizontal and vertical scanning circuits comprising: shift register units serially connected in a large number of stages for transferring information related to read scan location by clock, a storing section disposed corresponding to each shift register unit for storing an output of shift register unit at a succeeding stage of the shift register unit, a storing switch provided between the shift register unit at said succeeding stage and an input of said storing section, and a transmitting switch provided between an output of said storing section and corresponding shift register unit; said solid-state imaging apparatus comprising: a drive control means for causing said storing section to store information related to a read scan start location in a scan start location setting period before a main scanning and, in the main scanning, transmitting to the shift register the information related to said read scan start location stored at said storing section previously to the main scanning by driving said transmitting switch to transfer the information related to the read scan start location and for storing again the information related to said read scan start location by driving said storing switch at a timing of the arriving of the information related to said read scan start location at the shift register unit connected through said storing switch to said storing section at which the information related to said read scan start location is stored.