SOLID STATE IMAGING DEVICE

THERE IS PROVIDED A SOLID STATE IMAGING APPARATUS WHICH HAS REALIZED SHARING OF SIGNAL CHARGES WITHOUT GENERATION OF A FAULT OF IMAGE LIKE A VERTICAL STRIPE RESULTING FROM DEFECTIVE SHARING OF SIGNAL CHARGES IN A HORIZONTAL TRANSFER REGISTER CONSISTING OF A PAIR OF TRANSFER SECTIONS FOR HORIZONTAL TRANSFER BY SHARING THEREWITH THE SIGNAL CHARGES OF THE SAME PIXEL. IN THIS SOLID STATE IMAGING APPARATUS, A PAIR OF HORIZONTAL TRANSFER REGISTERS 4 (6) ARE PROVIDED TO EXECUTE HORIZONTAL TRANSFER BY SHARING THE SIGNAL CHARGES OF THE SAME PIXEL IN THE FIRST HORIZONTAL TRANSFER REGISTER 4 IN THE SIDE OF THE IMAGE SECTION WITH A PAIR OF TRANSFER SECTIONS 4A, 4B WITH THE CONTROL GATE SECTION 5. FOR THE SHARING OF SIGNAL CHARGES, A TRANSFER CHANNEL 17 IS FORMED IN THE TRANSFER GATE SECTION 5 BETWEEN THE BIT (PH2) OF THE TRANSFER SECTION 4A AND THE BIT (fHI) ONE BIT AFTER, IN THE HORIZONTALTRANSFER DIRECTION, THE BIT (fH2) OF THE TRANSFER SECTION 4B FORMING A PAIR WITH ABOVE BIT OF THE TRANSFER SECTION 4A AND THEREBY THE SIGNAL CHARGES ARE SHARED WITH A PAIR OF TRANSFER SECTIONS 4A AND 4B THROUGH THE TRANSFER CHANNEL 17. (FIG. 1)