Imaging device for an endoscope

An imaging apparatus for an endoscope, comprising:

• a light source for applying illumination light to an object;
• an imaging device for shooting the object;
• a driving circuit for driving the light source and the imaging device, the imaging device comprising:
• an imaging section in which plural vertical shift registers are arranged in a row direction, individual bits of the vertical shift registers serve as light-receiving pixels for generating signal charges corresponding to incident light, and the signal charges of the respective light-receiving pixels are accumulated and transferred vertically by the vertical shift registers;
• a horizontal transfer section for receiving, from the imaging section, row by row, the signal charges that are transferred vertically by the vertical shift registers, and for horizontally transferring the received signal charges;
• and
• an output section for generating an image signal on the basis of the signal charges that are output from the horizontal transfer section,
• wherein the driving circuit keeps the light source on in a period corresponding to an exposure period and reads out the image signal by driving the imaging device in a turn-off period of the light source.