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Bayer filter
The dominant colour filter array pattern, a repeating two-by-two cell of one red, one blue and two green filters that mirrors the eye's green sensitivity. Demosaicing reconstructs a full colour value at every pixel from this mosaic.
- Also known as
- Bayer pattern, RGGB
- Type
- Technology
- Domain
- Photonics, MEMS & Sensors, Image sensors
Notes
Patented by Bryce Bayer at Kodak in 1976 and still the default pattern in consumer imaging half a century later.
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