Patent ID: 6999120

Claim:
A solid-state imaging device comprising: a pickup region formed by a plurality of unit cells arranged in two dimensions of a plurality of pixel rows and a plurality of pixel columns on a substrate, each of the unit cells being provided with a photoelectric conversion circuit configured to accumulate an electric load by photo-electrically converting incident light to a pixel, reading circuit configured to read an accumulated electric load to a detection portion, and an amplification circuit configured to amplify an electric load which has been read; a plurality of reading lines provided in a horizontal direction corresponding to a plurality of pixels lines in the pickup region, each of the reading lines transmitting a reading drive signal of a plurality of unit cells of the corresponding pixel row; a vertical driving circuit configured to selectively drive the reading circuit by supplying the reading drive signal to the plurality of reading lines; a first row selection circuit configured to output a signal for selectively specifying a pixel row in the pickup region on the basis of a first pulse; a second row selection circuit configured to output the pixel row in the pickup region on the basis of a second pulse; and a plurality of vertical signal lines provided in correspondence to a plurality of pixel columns in the pickup region to transmit a signal output from the unit cell of each pixel row in a vertical direction; wherein the vertical driving circuit drives two or more times the reading circuit of the unit cell of the pixel row selected in the pickup region on the basis of an output signal from the first row selection circuit and the second row selection circuit.