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                        <journal-id journal-id-type="publisher-id">ei</journal-id>
                        <journal-title>Electronic Imaging</journal-title>
                        <issn pub-type="ppub">2470-1173</issn><issn pub-type="epub">2470-1173</issn>
                        <publisher>
                            <publisher-name>Society for Imaging Science and Technology</publisher-name>
                            <publisher-loc>IS&amp;T 7003 Kilworth Lane, Springfield, VA 22151 USA</publisher-loc>
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                        <article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.2352/EI.2022.34.7.ISS-257</article-id>
                        <article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">ISS-257</article-id>
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                            <article-title>World's first 16:4:1 triple conversion gain sensor with all-pixel AF for 82.4dB single exposure HDR</article-title>
                        </title-group><contrib-group content-type="all"><contrib contrib-type="author"><name>
                                <surname>Park</surname>
                                <given-names>ChangHyun </given-names>
                               </name> <xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1author1"/></contrib> <aff id="aff1author1">Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Republic of Korea</aff></contrib-group><contrib-group content-type="all"><contrib contrib-type="author"><name>
                                <surname>Lee</surname>
                                <given-names>HongSuk </given-names>
                               </name> <xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1author2"/></contrib> <aff id="aff1author2">Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Republic of Korea</aff></contrib-group><contrib-group content-type="all"><contrib contrib-type="author"><name>
                                <surname>Shim</surname>
                                <given-names>EunSub </given-names>
                               </name> <xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1author3"/></contrib> <aff id="aff1author3">Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Republic of Korea</aff></contrib-group><contrib-group content-type="all"><contrib contrib-type="author"><name>
                                <surname>Yun</surname>
                                <given-names>JungBin </given-names>
                               </name> <xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1author4"/></contrib> <aff id="aff1author4">Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Republic of Korea</aff></contrib-group><contrib-group content-type="all"><contrib contrib-type="author"><name>
                                <surname>Lee</surname>
                                <given-names>KyungHo </given-names>
                               </name> <xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1author5"/></contrib> <aff id="aff1author5">Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Republic of Korea</aff></contrib-group><contrib-group content-type="all"><contrib contrib-type="author"><name>
                                <surname>Jung</surname>
                                <given-names>Yunhwan </given-names>
                               </name> <xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1author6"/></contrib> <aff id="aff1author6">Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Republic of Korea</aff></contrib-group><contrib-group content-type="all"><contrib contrib-type="author"><name>
                                <surname>Yoon</surname>
                                <given-names>Sukki </given-names>
                               </name> <xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1author7"/></contrib> <aff id="aff1author7">Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Republic of Korea</aff></contrib-group><contrib-group content-type="all"><contrib contrib-type="author"><name>
                                <surname>Jeong</surname>
                                <given-names>Ilyun </given-names>
                               </name> <xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1author8"/></contrib> <aff id="aff1author8">Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Republic of Korea</aff></contrib-group><contrib-group content-type="all"><contrib contrib-type="author"><name>
                                <surname>Ahn</surname>
                                <given-names>JungChak </given-names>
                               </name> <xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1author9"/></contrib> <aff id="aff1author9">Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Republic of Korea</aff></contrib-group><contrib-group content-type="all"><contrib contrib-type="author"><name>
                                <surname>Chang</surname>
                                <given-names>Duckhyun </given-names>
                               </name> <xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1author10"/></contrib> <aff id="aff1author10">Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Republic of Korea</aff></contrib-group><abstract>
                        <title>Abstract</title>
                        <p>A Triple Conversion Gain (TCG) sensor with all-pixel auto focus based on 2PD of 1.4 um-pitch has been demonstrated for mobile applications. TCG was implemented by sharing adjacent Floating Diffusion (FD) without adding other capacitor. TCG helps to reduce the noise gap or slow the noise increase as user gain increases. An image with a Dynamic Range (DR) of 82.4 dB through a single exposure can be obtained through intra-scene TCG (i-TCG). Through this, a wider range of illuminance environments can be captured in the image. In addition, a more natural image can be obtained by reducing the SNR dip in one image by using TCG.</p>
                        </abstract><pub-date>
                            <day>16</day>
                            <month>01</month>
                            <year>2022</year>
                            </pub-date><volume>34</volume>
                        <issue-acronym>ISS</issue-acronym>
                        <issue>7</issue>
                        <fpage>257-1</fpage>
                        <lpage>257-4</lpage>
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                             <copyright-statement>© 2022, Society for Imaging Science and Technology</copyright-statement>
                            <copyright-year>2022</copyright-year>
                        </permissions><kwd-group><kwd>HDR</kwd><kwd> TCG</kwd><kwd> multiple conversion gain</kwd><kwd> all pixel AF</kwd></kwd-group></article-meta>
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