SOLID-STATE IMAGE SENSOR, METHOD FOR DRIVING THE SAME, AND SOLID-STATE CAMERA DEVICE AND CAMERA SYSTEM

It is intended to enable an all-picture element reading-out type or a non-interlace output type image sensor to selectively make interlace-type output without using any frame memory, etc., in its external circuit. Therefore, when a three-layer and three-phase driven all-picture element reading-out type CCD image sensor is made to output interlace signals, n-th line signal charges accumulated in a horizontal transfer register (4) are transferred (shifted) to the output side by, for example, the amount of two-picture elements by supplying a horizontal transfer pulse to the register (4) after transferring the signal charges at, for example, an n-th line picture element to the register (4) by supplying first to third vertical transfer pulses to a vertical transfer register (2). Thereafter, the signal charges at an (n+1)-th line picture element are transferred to the register (4) by supplying first to third vertical transfer pulses to the register (2) and the (n+1)-th line signals charges are mixed with the n-th line signal charges in the register (4).