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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 26, 2010
Filed:
Jul. 19, 2007
Tatsuya Hagiwara, Miyagi, JP;
Shunsuke Tanaka, Miyagi, JP;
Tatsuya Hagiwara, Miyagi, JP;
Shunsuke Tanaka, Miyagi, JP;
Fujifilm Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A method of driving a CCD solid-state image pickup device, the device comprising: a plurality of vertical charge-transfer channels that vertically transfers signal charges responsive to amounts of light received; a signal-charge temporary accumulation section, provided at an end of each of the vertical charge-transfer channels, that is driven independently of driving of the vertical charge-transfer channels; and a horizontal charge-transfer channel through which signal charges transferred from the signal-charge temporary accumulation section are transferred to an output terminal side, wherein the method comprising performing vertical transfers of signal charges through the vertical charge-transfer channels during a period of a horizontal transfer of signal charges through the horizontal charge-transfer channel, while the horizontal transfer through the horizontal charge-transfer channel is brought to a temporary stop for each pulse-edge time of driving pulses to drive the vertical charge-transfer channels.