The imaging sensor itself only detects light intensity, so without the Bayer filter, your images would just come out as black and white. This is the first part of the conundrum.

LEFT: A traditional Bayer filter array. RIGHT: A quad-Bayer array groups together photosites of the same color for easier pixel binning.

Without a Bayer filter on its 18 megapixel sensor, every photosite records the actual intensity at that point. According to Leica, this creates images that are twice as sharp as those from its ...

Image taken with a partially removed bayer filter (top right) and fully modified camera used to image the Eagle nebula The Bayer filter is a colored mosaic filter that covers the imaging sensor ...

For decades color image sensors have almost always used a Bayer color filter array, filtering incoming light into red, green and blue wavelengths which are then captured by corresponding ...

The Bayer filter is a mosaic pattern of 50-percent green, 25-percent red, and 25-percent blue filters that allow only that color of light through to the image sensor.

Bryce Bayer, an Eastman Kodak research scientist who invented color filter array the Bayer Filter, a key technology now found in nearly every digital camera and camera phone, including current ...