SOLID-STATE IMAGING APPARATUS

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To easily select an optional line, in a CMOS image sensor. SOLUTION: For example, two electronic shutter vertical shift register circuits A20, B21 of the same configuration are prepared for a vertical shift register circuit 17, that a CMOS image sensor includes, for achieving "thinning" and "pixel averaging" for pixels (signal charges) in a vertical direction of an imaging area or "segmentation" for pixels in an optional range. By controlling the number and the timing of clock signals to be input to the electronic shutter vertical shift register circuits A20, B21, a reduction ratio in "thinning", the average number of pixels in "pixel averaging" and a range of segmentation in "segmentation" are freely changed only by preparing the two electronic shutter vertical shift register circuits A20, B21. COPYRIGHT: (C)2010,JPO&INPIT