SOLID-STATE IMAGE PICKUP DEVICE

摘要

A solid-state image pickup device which can perform high speed image reading is provided. Since all the nth pixel columns (N1) in image pickup blocks (B1, B2, B3) are connectable to an nth processing circuit (for instance, a processing circuit (PU1)) through switches (Q (1), Q(4), Q(7)), even when a partial read out region (R) is small, a signal from an adjacent pixel column (N2) is separately processed by a different processing circuit (PU2). Furthermore, since a read out region is limited to the partial read out region (R) by an image data operating section (10), higher speed image pickup can be performed.