Patent ID: 7796185

Claim:
A driving method for a solid-state imaging device having pixels arranged in a matrix, said method comprising: for each of the pixels, holding a first signal charge in a first holding unit, the first signal charge being generated from incident light at a first sensitivity within a field period of a field which temporally precedes a predetermined field, of two different fields located at a temporally equal distance from the predetermined field, and the two different fields and the predetermined field being included in a frame; holding a second signal charge in a second holding unit, the second signal charge being generated from incident light at a second sensitivity within a field period of the predetermined field; and adding the first signal charge held in the first holding unit, the second signal charge held in the second holding unit, and a third signal charge which is generated from incident light at the first sensitivity within a field period of a field which temporally follows the predetermined field, of the two different fields, wherein the adding comprises: adding the first signal charge held in the first holding unit and the third signal charge; and adding the second signal charge held in the second holding unit and a signal charge which is a result of the addition of the first signal charge and the third signal charge.