Solid-state imaging device and method of driving same

A solid-state imaging device comprising:

• a semiconductor substrate;
• a plurality of photoelectric converting elements arranged in a two-dimensional array on a light-receiving surface of the semiconductor substrate;
• and
• a charge transfer path disposed along each of columns of photoelectric converting elements, the charge transfer path reading out charges detected at each of photoelectric converting elements in a column of the photoelectric converting elements and transferring the charges,
• wherein the photoelectric converting elements in the column thereof comprises two groups, each containing every other photoelectric converting element;
• and
• the solid-state imaging device further comprises a drive pulse-applying section that applies driving pulses to read out charges from the two groups into the charge transfer path at a time difference between the two groups, wherein
• the charge transfer path comprises charge transfer electrodes to which a read-out pulse is applied to read out a charge from a photoelectric converting element, and
• when the charges are read out from any one of the two groups, the drive pulse-applying section applies a potential between a potential of the read-out pulse and a potential of the pulse of the polarity opposite to the read-out pulse, to a charge transfer electrode adjacent to the charge transfer electrode to which the read-out pulse is applied.