Bryce Bayer: Kodak Scientist and Inventor of Bayer Filter Passes Away

Bryce Bayer, the Eastman Kodak research scientist best known for inventing the color filter array known as the Bayer Filter has past away at the age of 83. Patented in 1976, the Bayer Filter is a checkerboard array of red, green and blue filters that allow most single chip sensors to capture a color image. Prior to this invention, digital cameras of yore utilized three separate sensors for each individual color channel. His RGBG design allowed an economic way of digital capture that successively mimics the way our eyes see color.  Bayer retired from Kodak in the 1990's and his filter is still used in most digital cameras, camcorders and scanners that we use today.

This Thanksgiving give thanks to a man who helped form the digital sensor as we know it.

The Bayer arrangement of color filters on the pixel array of an image sensor (Wikipedia)