Patent ID: 8749677

Claim:
An imaging sensor, comprising: a pixel array in which a plurality of pixels are disposed in a two-dimensional matrix state, the pixels each having a photoelectric conversion part generating and accumulating an electric charge by an incident light and a charge-voltage conversion part converting the electric charge transferred from the photoelectric conversion part into a voltage; a vertical signal line coupled to the plurality of pixels disposed in a column direction, and to which a pixel signal is input from the pixels, the pixel signal containing a signal component in accordance with the electric charge generated at the photoelectric conversion part and a noise component acquired when the charge-voltage conversion part is reset; a sampling part coupled to the vertical signal line and to which the pixel signal output to the vertical signal line is input; a shutter control part making the pixel array perform a global shutter operation which simultaneously transfers the electric charge accumulated at the photoelectric conversion part of the pixels at a plurality of rows to each charge-voltage conversion part, and outputting the pixel signal from the pixels to the vertical signal line by each of the rows being selected; and a clipping circuit provided at an input side of the sampling part, and clipping an electric potential of the vertical signal line to a first clip level before the pixel signal is input from the pixels to the vertical signal line when the shutter control part performs the global shutter operation.