Patent ID: 8507870

Claim:
A solid-state imaging apparatus having an imaging area formed by arranging a plurality of imaging blocks, each of the plurality of imaging blocks comprising: a pixel array in which a plurality of pixels are arranged to form a plurality of rows and a plurality of columns; a plurality of vertical signal lines provided in correspondence with the plurality of columns, respectively; a horizontal output line commonly provided for the plurality of vertical signal lines to read out signals read out to the plurality of vertical signal lines; a first scanning circuit; and a second scanning circuit, wherein signals of the pixels of a selected row in the pixel array are read out to the plurality of vertical signal lines in accordance with a driving pulse from the first scanning circuit, the signals read out to the plurality of vertical signal lines are sequentially read out to the horizontal output line in accordance with a driving pulse from the second scanning circuit, and a length in a row direction of the pixel array is smaller than a length in a column direction of the pixel array.