Patent ID: 8094222

Claim:
A driving method for use in a solid-state imaging device that includes a solid-state image sensor including an imaging region and a peripheral circuitry arranged around the imaging region, said driving method comprising: imaging an object for a first storage time in a period when a shutter is open, in a first state that is a state where either at least a part of the peripheral circuitry is suspended or a consumption current of the peripheral circuitry is limited; reading a signal image of the imaged object in a second state that is a state where the peripheral circuitry is not suspended and the consumption current is not limited; imaging, in the first state, a dark output signal image including only a dark output for a second storage time in a period when the shutter is closed; reading the imaged dark output signal image in the second state; and converting the dark output signal image to correspond to the image obtained for the first storage time and subtracting, from the signal image of the object, the converted dark output signal image or converting the dark output signal image to correspond to the image obtained for the second storage time and subtracting, from the signal image of the object, the converted dark output signal image.