| 摘要 |
Unique solid state imaging apparatus comprising an area image sensor (40) which is adapted to be read out at exceptionally fast frame rates. The individual photosites of the sensor are formated into a plurality of blocks (B1-B6) for purposes of readout, each block comprising a plurality of photosite rows (R1-R32) which can be read out in parallel. Circuitry (42, 44) is provided for sequentially enabling the individual blocks of photosites for read out, and for sequentially addressing the photosites of each row in an enabled block, all of the rows in an enabled block being addressed simultaneously, whereby all rows of photosites in each block are read out in parallel, and the plurality of blocks of photosites are read out sequentially. |
