Abstract: A driving method for a solid state imaging device with a horizontal blanking period for each scanning line and a vertical blanking period for each field and including a plurality of cell sections formed in a matrix form on a semiconductor substrate, the plurality of cell sections including a plurality of signal charge storage sections for storing signal charges, a plurality of readout sections for reading out the signal charges from the signal charge storing sections, a plurality of signal charge transferring sections for transferring the readout signal charges, and a plurality of pixel electrodes electrically connected to the plurality of signal charge storage sections, a photoelectric converting layer including at least one photoelectric converting film stacked on the plurality of pixel electrodes, the photoelectric converting film being electrically connected to the electrodes and having a pn junction, and at least one transparent electrode formed on the photoelectric converting film.

Abstract: A solid-state imaging device includes a semiconductor substrate, an array of cells on the substrate, a plurality of vertical charge transfer sections extending in a first direction on the substrate, and a horizontal charge transfer section extending in a second direction transverse to the first direction on the substrate and being coupled to the vertical charge transfer section. The cell array includes a plurality of columns of cells that are associated with a corresponding one of the vertical transfer sections. The cell columns include a predetermined number of spaced-part cells that are series-connected along the second direction to constitute a NAND type cell structure. At least one cell-to-cell charge transfer electrode overlies a channel region as defined between adjacent ones of the NAND cells in the substrate.