Patent ID: 7292276

Claim:
A solid-state imaging device comprising: an imaging area provided by arranging unit cells each including a photoelectric conversion element in a two-dimensional matrix on a semiconductor substrate; a row select circuit configured to select unit cells in the same row in said imaging area; vertical signal lines onto which signals read out from the unit cells in the same row selected by said row select circuit are transferred; a horizontal readout gate section configured to sequentially select the signals transferred onto said vertical signal lines, said horizontal readout gate section comprising: horizontal select transistors each being connected to corresponding one of said vertical signal lines, in which two adjacent ones of the horizontal select transistors form pairs, each pair having a drain region commonly shared by the two adjacent transistors and connected to a horizontal signal line, and two source regions being arranged to sandwich said shared drain region; and a pair of correction transistors also having a shared drain region and source regions arranged in the same manner as each of said pairs, wherein when one transistor of a selected one of said pairs is driven, said pair of correction transistors are driven in a complementary manner with respect to said selected one of said pairs of horizontal select transistors.