Patent ID: 7471326

Claim:
A solid-state imaging device comprising: a plurality of pixels; a plurality of vertical signal lines connected to said plurality of pixels; a plurality of horizontal switches disposed at every vertical signal line, each of said horizontal switches being composed of an insulating gate type FET (field-effect transistor) having first and second main electrodes, said first main electrode being connected to said vertical signal lines and being formed from first and second drain regions located at opposite sides of a source region of said FET, said FET further having a channel formed in first and second channel directions between said first and second main electrodes, said first channel direction being between said source region and said first drain region, and said second channel direction being between said source region and said second drain region; a horizontal signal line connected to said second main electrode of said horizontal switch; and a signal detector connected to said horizontal signal line for detecting a signal obtained from said pixels; wherein said horizontal signal line is divided into a first horizontal signal line and a second horizontal signal line, and said horizontal switch includes a first horizontal switch group connected to said first horizontal signal line and a second horizontal switch group connected to said second horizontal signal line, and wherein a first signal from one of adjacent two of said pixels in a horizontal direction is output to said first horizontal switch group and second signal from the other of said adjacent two of said pixels is output to said second horizontal switch group.