Patent ID: 7852394

Claim:
A driving method for a solid-state imaging device having pixels arranged in a matrix and color filters which are arranged in a Bayer pattern and are provided above each of the pixels, said method comprising: for each row of the color filters arranged in the Bayer pattern, holding, for a first pixel, a signal charge in a first holding unit, the signal charge being generated from incident light during an accumulation period of a field period which temporally precedes a predetermined field, out of two different fields located at a temporally equal distance from the predetermined field, the two different fields and the predetermined field being included in a frame; holding, for a second pixel, a first signal charge in a second holding unit, the first signal charge being generated from incident light during an accumulation period of the predetermined field; adding, for the first pixel, the signal charge held in the first holding unit and a signal charge which is generated from incident light during an accumulation period of a field which temporally follows the predetermined field out of the two different fields so as to obtain a second signal charge; and outputting the first signal charge held in said second holding unit and the second signal charge obtained by said adding, to outside of said solid-state imaging device, wherein an average time between a start time of the accumulation period of the temporally preceding field and a start time of the accumulation period of the temporally following field falls between a start time and an end time of the accumulation period of the predetermined field.