| 摘要 |
<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an imaging apparatus that prevents an image picked up by an XY read type solid-state imaging device from being distorted and suppresses the quantity of generated noise due to a leak of light into a pixel circuit. <P>SOLUTION: A transfer transistor and a reset transistor are turned ON to reset accumulated charges in a photodiode and the potential of a floating diffusion portion, and the photodiode begins to be exposed (timing T12). Then a mechanical shutter is closed after a designated exposure time elapses to end the exposure period (timing T13) and in this state, a voltage corresponding to signal charges transferred from the photodiode is read out of the floating diffusion portion, line by line, in order (timing T14 to T15). <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2006,JPO&NCIPI |
