Patent ID: 7889259

Claim:
An image pickup apparatus comprising an image pickup device including: a plurality of photosensitive cells for converting incident light from a scene to an electric signal charge; a first transfer path for transferring the signal charge read out from said plurality of photosensitive cells in a first direction; a second transfer path for transferring the signal charge transferred over said first transfer path in a second direction; an assignment circuit connected to an output end of said second transfer path for assigning the transferred signal charge to a plurality of output channels; a plurality of third transfer paths serving as the plurality of output channels and connected to said assignment circuit; and an output circuit connected to output ends of said plurality of third transfer paths, said apparatus further comprising: a corrector for correcting a transfer error of the signal charge in said image pickup device; and a temperature information providing circuit for providing information depending on a temperature of at least part of said image pickup device, said corrector being responsive to the provided information to adjust transfer error correction.