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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 28, 2003
Filed:
Dec. 18, 1997
Toyokazu Mizoguchi, Nagano-ken, JP;
Satoshi Kazama, Nagano-ken, JP;
Olympus Optical Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
In a solid-state image pickup apparatus including a pixel section having a plurality of arrayed pixels and a scanning circuit for scanning the pixel section, the scanning circuit is constructed as having: a shift register section consisting of cascaded shift register units; a signal select section consisting of a plurality of signal select units arranged in a manner corresponding to the shift register units; and a scan control section for generating scan control signal for controlling the signal select unit. Outputs of the shift register units are selectively provided as scanning signal through the signal select units which are controlled by the scan control signal. Thereby, pixel signals corresponding to a full angle of view can be read out at a rapid frame rate even in the high-definition solid-state image pickup apparatus where the number of pixels is very large.