Solid state image pickup device

摘要

A solid state image pickup device of the present invention comprises a photoelectrical conversion element array and a pixel-data-reading-out control unit. The pixel-data-reading-out control unit has a still-picture-reading-out mode and moving-picture-reading-out mode for pixel data read out from the photoelectrical conversion element array. In the moving-picture-reading-out mode, interlace reading-out is performed on a plurality of adjacent pixel data as a group on the whole screen obtained on the photoelectrical conversion element array. Thereby, the speed of reading out the pixel data can be increased and the quality of recorded moving pictures can be improved.