Patent ID: 7952627

Claim:
A solid-state image capturing apparatus, the apparatus comprising: a plurality of pixels arranged in two dimensions; and a readout signal line for reading out a signal charge from each pixel in each pixel row, the readout signal line being provided for each pixel line, wherein each pixel has a circuit structure including a photoelectric conversion element for performing a photoelectric conversion on an incident light, a signal charge accumulation section for accumulating the signal charge obtained by the photoelectric conversion, a transfer transistor for transferring the signal charge from the photoelectric conversion element to the signal charge accumulation section, a reset transistor for resetting an electric potential of the signal charge accumulation section to a reference voltage, and an amplifying transistor for amplifying the electric potential of the signal charge accumulation section to readout the electric potential in the readout signal line, in which a source side is connected to the readout signal line and a gate is connected to the signal charge accumulation section, wherein the solid-state image capturing apparatus further comprises: an electric potential setting section for setting an electric potential of the readout signal line of a corresponding pixel row, the electric potential setting section being provided for each pixel row; and a control section for, in a state where the electric potential setting section is controlled to maintain the electric potential of the readout signal line at a first electric potential, turning on the reset transistor to reset the electric potential of the signal charge accumulation section to a reference voltage and subsequently turning off the reset transistor and simultaneously controlling the electric potential setting section to change the electric potential of the readout signal line to a second electric potential so as to change the electric potential of the signal charge accumulation section in a reverse direction from the electric potential change of the signal charge accumulation section due to the turning off of the reset transistor.