Method of driving a solid state image pickup device

摘要

A method of driving a solid-stage image pickup device of the frame transfer type comprises an image sensing part for generating an electrical signal in response to incident light, a storage part for taking and storing the signal generated in the image sensing part, and means for preventing blooming provided at least near the boundary between these image sensing part and storage part. This driving method comprises the steps of: driving the image sensing part independently of the storage part at an arbitrary time; collecting the generated signal near the boundary; clearing them using the blooming preventing means located therein; thereafter, synchronously driving the image sensing part and the storage part under a predetermined relation, thereby transferring the signal in less than the standard television field interval which has been generated so far in the image sensing part to the storage part and storing it therein.