Patent ID: 8023023

Claim:
An image sensing apparatus comprising: an image sensing element in which charges can be sequentially transferred in a horizontal direction and pixels can be added; a driving unit adapted to drive said image sensing element; a signal processing unit adapted to perform signal processing on an output signal of said image sensing element; a generating unit adapted to generate timing signals supplied to said driving unit and said signal processing unit; a storage unit adapted to store an information table including at least one of information on a timing of a horizontal transfer driving signal for performing charge transfer in the horizontal direction in said image sensing element, information on a timing of a reset gate signal for performing charge sweep per pixel, and information on a timing of a feed-through sample-hold signal for sample-holding a feed-through section of the output signal of said image sensing element which becomes a black reference per pixel, in association with a pixel addition number in said image sensing element; a detecting unit adapted to detect the pixel addition number in said image sensing element; and a control unit adapted to select the information table associated with the pixel addition number detected by said detecting unit from said storage unit, and drive said image sensing element based on the information table by said driving unit.