Patent ID: 8040416

Claim:
A solid-state imaging apparatus comprising: a pixel section having a plurality of pixels two-dimensionally arranged into a matrix, each pixel containing a photoelectric conversion section for converting an incident light into signal electric charges, an accumulation section for accumulating said signal electric charges, a transfer section for transferring said signal electric charges to the accumulation section, an amplification section for amplifying and outputting as pixel signal said signal electric charges accumulated at said accumulation section, and a reset section for resetting the accumulation section by supplying an electric potential retained on a power supply line to said accumulation section, said pixel section having output signal lines provided column by column onto which said pixel signal is outputted, connected: to the other end of a constant current supply having one end grounded; and a control section where, of a first one of said pixels and a second one of said pixels connected to the same one of said output signal lines, taking said first pixel as one of said pixels subject to reading of pixel signal conforming to said incident light and said second pixel as non-subject one of said pixels set in accordance with a location of said first pixel, an output from said second pixel onto said output signal line is used at the time of outputting of said pixel signal from said first pixel onto said output signal line to effect control so that an electric potential difference between the one end and the other end of said constant current supply is kept in a range where said constant current supply is operable.