SOLID STATE IMAGE PICKUP DEVICE

摘要

A solid state image pickup device, when applied as one element of a solid state image pickup device array, allows a non-sensitive area between itself and each of adjacent devices to be reduced in size, thereby providing a more precise image pickup result. The solid state image pickup device comprises a light detection part, an output part, a row selection part and a column selection part, and further comprises M waveform shaping circuits as waveform shaping means for shaping the waveform of a row selection signal. A row selection signal outputted from the row selection part is shaped in waveform by the waveform shaping circuit and thereafter inputted to N pixels constituting the m-th row of the light detection part.