Patent ID: 8106899

Claim:
A driving method of a semiconductor device comprising a pixel portion having a photoelectric transducer and an amplifying transistor and a sample hold circuit having a first capacitor, a second capacitor and a third capacitor, wherein one frame period includes a plurality of horizontal scanning periods and each of the plurality of horizontal scanning periods includes a first sub-horizontal scanning period, a second sub-horizontal scanning period and a third sub-horizontal scanning period, the method comprising: outputting a first signal, a second signal and a third signal from the amplifying transistor to a signal output line in the one frame period, wherein a gate electrode of the amplifying transistor is electrically connected to the photoelectric transducer; holding the first signal, the second signal and the third signal in the first capacitor, the second capacitor and the third capacitor, respectively, wherein the first capacitor, the second capacitor and the third capacitor are electrically connected to the signal output line; and outputting the first signal from the first capacitor, the second signal from the second capacitor, and the third signal from the third capacitor to a final output line, wherein the first signal is outputted from the amplifying transistor to the signal output line in the first sub-horizontal scanning period of one of the plurality of horizontal scanning periods, and wherein the first signal is outputted from the first capacitor to the final output line in the second sub-horizontal scanning period of one of the plurality of horizontal scanning periods.