Solid state imaging element and driving method thereof

A driving method of driving a solid state imaging element,

• the solid state imaging element comprising:
• a plurality of photoelectric conversion elements arranged in a two-dimensional array-shape;
• a plurality of first electric charge transmission sections that transmits signal electric charges detected by the photoelectric conversion elements;
• a plurality of second electric charge transmission sections having the same transmission stage numbers, wherein said plurality of second electric charge transmission sections corresponds to said plurality of first electric charge transmission sections respectively and comprises plural subgroups of the adjacent second electric charge transmission sections in given numbers;
• and
• electric charge detection sections that detects the signal electric charge transmitted from said plurality of second electric charge transmission sections, each of the electric charge detection sections being provided for each of the plural subgroups of the second electric charge transmission sections,
• wherein the driving method comprising:
• controlling each of the plural subgroups of the second electric charge transmission sections so as to control an order of transmission of a given number of signal electric charges in each of the plural subgroups to corresponding one of the electric charge detecting sections.