Patent ID: 8130303

Claim:
A solid-state imaging apparatus comprising: a pixel section having a plurality of pixels two-dimensionally arranged into a matrix, each pixel containing a photoelectric conversion section for converting an incident light into signal electric charges, an accumulation section for accumulating said signal electric charges generated at the photoelectric conversion section, an amplification section for amplifying and outputting onto an output signal line said signal electric charges accumulated at the accumulation section, and a reset section for resetting said accumulation section to a reset potential set on a reset line; a load section connected at one end thereof to said output signal line and grounded at the other end for making constant an electric current flowing through said amplification section; a noise suppressing section connected to said output signal line using a first signal being an output from said pixel at the time of resetting by said reset section to effect a noise suppressing operation where noise components contained in a second signal corresponding to said signal electric charges are suppressed; and a control section for, of the outputs onto said output signal line of a first pixel being subject of said noise suppressing operation, respectively limiting said first signal and said second signal to a first electric potential and to a second electric potential with using an output resulting from reset operation by said reset section onto said output signal line from a second pixel different from said first pixel and connected to the same one of said output signal line as said first pixel, wherein a power supply voltage provided to said second pixel is switchable.