Patent ID: 8502897

Claim:
A solid-state imaging device comprising: a cell including 2N pixels configured to accumulate charges generated based on incident light; an amplifier transistor formed for the cell and configured to amplify, for each of the pixels, signals read out from the pixels to a floating diffusion; charge coupled devices configured to transfer the charges accumulated in the pixels to the floating diffusion; horizontal driving lines configured to drive the charge coupled devices; and a vertical signal line configured to transmit the signals amplified by the amplifier transistor, wherein the 2N pixels are arranged side by side in a vertical direction, and the floating diffusion is arranged between an Nth pixel and an N+1th pixel, and wherein charges of the Nth pixel, the N+1th pixel, an N−1th pixel, an N+2th pixel, an N−2th pixel, an N+3th pixel, . . . , a first pixel, and an 2Nth pixel are transferred to the floating diffusion in this order, and when the charges of the N+1th pixel are transferred to the floating diffusion, the charges of an N−(A-1)th (A is an even number) pixel are transferred to an N−Ath pixel and the charges of an N+(A+1)th pixel are transferred to an N+Ath pixel.