Patent ID: 8054365

Claim:
A solid-state image pickup device, comprising: a pixel part where multiple pixels used for photoelectric conversion of incident light are two-dimensionally arranged; vertical signal input lines connected to the pixel part and to which vertical transfer signals for transferring signal charges generated at the pixels according to the incident light vertically in the pixel part are applied; a horizontal transfer part for horizontally transferring the signal charges transferred vertically in the pixel part; horizontal signal input lines connected to the horizontal transfer part and to which horizontal transfer signals for horizontally transferring the signal charges are applied; and a signal separation part, connected to at least one of the vertical signal input lines, at least one of the horizontal signal input lines and a complex signal input terminal, for separating a vertical transfer signal and a horizontal transfer signal from a complex signal supplied via the complex signal input terminal, and for supplying the separated signals to the at least one of the vertical signal input lines and the at least one of the horizontal signal input lines, respectively, wherein the complex signal has at least three different voltage values.