Patent ID: 7436010

Claim:
A solid state imaging apparatus comprising: a plurality of photoelectric conversion cells each including a plurality of photoelectric sections arranged in a matrix including at least first and second rows and first and second columns; a plurality of floating diffusion sections each being shared by, and being connected to, the photoelectric sections which are included in the first row of each photoelectric conversion cell via a plurality of transfer transistors, respectively; a plurality of second floating diffusion sections each being shared by, and being connected to the photoelectric sections which are included in the second row of each photoelectric conversion cell via a plurality of transfer transistors, respectively; a plurality of read-out lines each being selectively connected to at least two of the transfer transistors that are not included in the same row; a plurality of first pixel amplifier transistors each detecting and outputting the potential of each first floating diffusion section; and a plurality of second pixel amplifier transistors each detecting and outputting the potential of each second floating diffusion section, wherein in each photoelectric conversion cell, a gate of a first transfer transistors included in the first row and a gate of a second transfer transistor included in the second row are connected to each other, sharing one of the plurality of read-out lines, each floating diffusion section is disposed across the two photoelectric conversion cells adjacent to each other in row direction, and only two read-out lines are disposed within the photoelectric conversion cells.