Method of driving solid-state imaging device, solid-state imaging device and camera

Abstract

To provide a solid-state imaging device driving method, a solid-state imaging device and a camera in which the solid-state imaging device is able to operate at a high speed without a change of an angle of view and without a mixture of colors in a color solid-state imaging device by reducing an amount of data in the horizontal direction to ½. In a solid-state imaging device of a two-dimensional arrangement having a pixel comprising a light-receiving accumulation unit, a vertical register or a vertical register having a light-receiving function and a horizontal register, signal electric charges of pixels distant from each other on one row are transferred to the horizontal register, these signal electric charges are mixed within the horizontal register, and the mixed signal electric charge is transferred in the horizontal direction.