Patent ID: 8411157

Claim:
A solid-state image pickup device comprising: a pixel unit in which pixels are arranged in a two-dimensional manner, the pixels including a photoelectric conversion element configured to convert light into signal charge and accumulating the signal charge, a charge holding unit configured to hold the signal charge accumulated in the photoelectric conversion element, a transmission unit configured to transmit the signal charge accumulated in the photoelectric conversion element to the charge holding unit, and a first output unit and a second output unit configured to output a pixel signal as a still image signal or a moving image signal based on the signal charge held in the charge holding unit; a first processing unit configured to read and process the still image signal or the moving image signal which is output from the first output unit; a second processing unit configured to read and process the still image signal or the moving image signal which is output from the second output unit; and a control unit configured to control exposure of the pixels such that exposure periods for still images of all pixels constituting an area to be read are equal to one another, and control reading of the still image signal and reading of the moving image signal in units of fields, the all pixels constituting the area to be read being divided into a plurality of fields, in such a manner that the still image signal is to be read from both the first output unit and the second output unit in units of fields in at least one of a plurality of periods in which the still image signal of one field is read, and the moving image signal is to be read from at least one of the first output unit and the second output unit in units of fields in a plurality of periods in which the moving image signal of one field is read.