Patent ID: 7859582

Claim:
A solid-state imaging apparatus including a pixel section having a plurality of pixels arrayed in two dimensions, each having a photoelectric conversion device, a means for resetting signal accumulated at the photoelectric conversion device, a memory means for retaining signal accumulated at said photoelectric conversion device, and a transfer means for transferring signal accumulated at said photoelectric conversion device to said memory means, the signal retained at said memory means being outputted as signal of said pixel, said solid-state imaging apparatus comprising: a global control means, said pixel section having a plurality of pixel regions divided in row direction, for concurrently effecting said reset operation and said transfer operation, respectively, with treating said divided pixel region as a unit; a vertical scanning means for controlling sequence in outputting signals of said pixels with treating said divided pixel region as a unit; and a first and a second horizontal read means for outputting signals of the pixels of two pixel regions in parallel with considering said divided pixel region as unit; wherein, after passage of a desired accumulation time from said reset operation with respect to all pixels of said pixel section concurrently effected by said global control means, said first horizontal read means outputs signals of all pixels of said pixel section obtained by concurrently effecting said transfer operation, and wherein said second horizontal read means, with respect to an optional pixel region narrower than said pixel section selected from the plurality of said divided pixel regions, outputs signals of the pixels of the optional pixel region obtained as a result that said global control means respectively effects said reset operation and said transfer operation on regular interval.