Image sensor device having plural photoelectric converting elements

Claim 2

An image sensor device comprising a linear array of photoelectric converting elements each having a semiconductive transistor with a control electrode area and having a capacitor on said control electrode area, and selector means for sequentially selecting said photoelectric converting elements, wherein the potential of the control electrode area of a thus selected photoelectric converting element is controlled through said capacitor of the selected photoelectric converting element, thereby accumulating carriers generated by photoexcitation in said control electrode area and reading a voltage generated according to the amount of said accumulation or dissipating the thus accumulated carriers; said selector means comprising: a shift register having readout terminals provided corresponding to respective photoelectric converting elements; first switching means, for refresh, connected to said capacitor of a corresponding photoelectric converting element and to a refresh terminal; and second switching means, for refresh, connected to said control electrode area and said capacitor of a corresponding photoelectric converting element. .Iadd.

Claim 3

An image sensor device comprising a linear array of photoelectric converting elements each having a semiconductive transistor with a control electrode area and having a capacitor on said control electrode area, and selector means for selecting said photoelectric converting elements, wherein the potential of the control electrode area of a thus-selected photoelectric converting element is controlled through said capacitor of the selected photoelectric converting element, thereby accumulating carriers generated by photoexcitation in said control electrode area and reading a voltage generated according to the amount of said accumulation or dissipating the thus-accumulated carriers; said selector means comprising: a shift register having plural readout and refresh terminal means provided corresponding to respective photoelectric converting elements and each connected to said capacitor of a corresponding photoelectric converting element for supplying to said capacitor first a read signal for reading the voltage out from the corresponding photoelectric converting element, and then a refresh signal for refreshing said corresponding photoelectric converting element..Iaddend. .Iadd.3. An image sensor device according to claim 2, wherein each said read and refresh terminal means further comprises a read terminal and a refresh terminal both connected to said capacitor of said corresponding photoelectric converting element..Iaddend.

Claim 4

.Iadd.4. An image sensor device according to claim 2, wherein said read and refresh terminal means further comprises a read and refresh terminal connected to said capacitor of said corresponding photoelectric converting element, for supplying both the read signal and the refresh signal thereto; and further comprising additional refresh means connected to both said capacitor and said control electrode area of said photoelectric converting element for applying a predetermined signal thereto for refresh..Iaddend.