Patent ID: 8248500

Claim:
A solid-state image pickup device comprising: when M and N are both provided as integers not less than 2, m is provided as an integer not less than 1 and not more than M, and n is provided as an integer not less than 1 and not more than N, an imaging photodetecting section including pixel sections P 1,1 to P M,N each having a photodiode that generates electric charge of an amount according to incident light intensity and arrayed two dimensionally in M rows and N columns; a triggering photodetecting section including a triggering photodiode that generates electric charge of an amount according to incident light intensity; and an output section that outputs pixel data of a value according to the amount of electric charge generated by the photodiode of any pixel section P m,n of the pixel sections P 1,1 to P M,N and triggering data of a value according to the amount of electric charge generated by the triggering photodiode to a common output signal line, wherein the triggering photodetecting section includes one triggering photodiode provided surrounding the imaging photodetecting section.