Patent ID: 7176972

Claim:
A high speed image sensor, comprising: a plurality of charge signal converters forming rows at constant intervals and columns at constant intervals, arranged in a photo-receptive area so that the row direction and the columnar direction are perpendicular to each other, and respectively generating a charge signal according to an intensity of incident beam; a plurality of charge signal storages, respectively provided for each of the plurality of charge signal converters with one end thereof being connected to a corresponding charge signal converter, extending linearly so as to be slanted with respect to a line connecting adjacent charge signal converters in the column direction, and transferring charge signals generated by the corresponding charge signal converter from one end to an opposite end; and a plurality of charge signal transfers, respectively provided for each column of charge signal converters so that the opposite ends of the charge signal storages with the one ends connected to charge signal converters constituting a corresponding column are merged to the charge signal transfer, and transferring charge signals that have been transferred from these charge signal storages to a horizontal transfer that transfers the charge signals to the outside of the photo-receptive area.