Patent ID: 7557848

Claim:
A solid-state image pickup device comprising: a plurality of photoelectric conversion elements; a plurality of charge transfer elements for transferring photoelectric charge generated in the plurality of photoelectric conversion elements; a detection diode for detecting the photoelectric charge transferred by the plurality of charge transfer elements; and a switched capacitor amplifier whose input section is connected to the detection diode, wherein the switched capacitor amplifier includes: an inverting amplifier whose input section is connected to the detection diode; a reset transistor connected between an input section and an output section of the inverting amplifier; and a capacitor connected between the input section and the output section of the inverting amplifier and parallel to the reset transistor, and a gate application pulse generation circuit for generating a gate application pulse of the reset transistor, wherein the gate application pulse generation circuit includes: a second inverting amplifier of a structure identical to that of the inverting amplifier of the switched capacitor amplifier; and a second reset transistor of a structure identical to that of the reset transistor of the switched capacitor amplifier.