Patent ID: 7244921

Claim:
A solid-state imaging device comprising: a pixel array section in which a plurality of pixels are two-dimensionally arranged, each of the pixels outputting a signal representing an external physical quantity; a vertical driving portion for performing a plurality of sets of operations of a selection operation of a readout row and a scanning operation of the selected readout row in the pixel array section and for reading out a signal from each pixel in the selected and scanned readout rows; a plurality of column circuit groups including a plurality of column circuits disposed for a single column of pixels in the pixel array section, the plurality of column circuits individually performing a processing operation upon a signal read out from each pixel in the readout rows; and a control portion for changing combinations of the readout rows and the column circuit groups as the scanning operation performed by the vertical driving portion proceeds so that signals read out from the same pixel can be sent to the same column circuit.