IMAGING ELEMENT, METHOD FOR CONTROLLING SAME, AND CAMERA

摘要

Provided are an imaging element capable of not only reducing noise such as shading but also executing high-speed pixel read-out, a method for controlling same, and a camera.  In a three-transistor-driven pixel circuit (11), the drain of a reset transistor (113) is connected to a drive signal line DRNL (n), and the drain of an amplification transistor (114) is connected to a power supply voltage VDD.  A row drive circuit (12a) rapidly switches the level of voltage to be applied to the drive signal line DRNL (n) from a high-level voltage VH to a lowest-level voltage VLL and slowly restores the voltage level from the lowest-level voltage VLL to the original high-level voltage VH through a low-level voltage VL.