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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 25, 1995
Filed:
Feb. 11, 1993
Masaharu Hamasaki, Kanagawa, JP;
Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
The present invention is directed to a solid state image sensor in which one horizontal line from an image sensor section is selected as a line in which a signal is read out from a pixel, a signal is read out to a vertical signal line by a vertical scanning in which selected horizontal lines are sequentially switched, and pixel the signal of the horizontal line, processed in a correlation double sampling fashion, is read out to a horizontal signal line in a constant order. This solid state image sensor has an electronic shutter function includes an electronic shutter scanning means for resetting a horizontal line spaced apart from a horizontal line currently read out by a shutter time in the vertical scanning direction.