Patent ID: 8854506

Claim:
A solid-state imaging device comprising: a photoelectric conversion portion generating signal electric charges corresponding to a quantity of light; a pixel array block having pixels two-dimensionally arranged in a matrix, each of the pixels including three or more electric charge accumulating portions including a first electric charge accumulating portion to which the signal electric charges generated in the photoelectric conversion portion are transferred, a second electric charge accumulating portion to which the signal electric charges, whose amount exceeds a saturated amount of electric charges in the photoelectric conversion portion, of the signal electric charges generated in the photoelectric conversion portion are transferred, and a third electric charge accumulating portion reading out the signal electric charges accumulated in the first electric charge accumulating portion as a low illuminance signal and then reading out the signal electric charges accumulated in the second electric charge accumulating portion together with the signal electric charges accumulated in the first electric charge accumulating portion as a high illuminance signal, and plural pixel transistors transferring and reading out the signal electric charges; a scanning block carrying out scanning in such a way that accumulation periods of time for the signal electric charges become simultaneous for all of the pixels, and scanning reading-out of the low illuminance signal and the high illuminance signal to the third electric charge accumulating portion in a reading-out periods of time every row; and an arithmetic operation processing portion acquiring a false signal accumulated in the third electric charge accumulating portion before the reading-out of the low illuminance signal in a phase of reading out for each row in the reading-out period of time, and correcting both of the low illuminance signal and the high illuminance signal by using the false signal.