Bryce Bayer RIP (Bayer Filter/sensor Kodak scientist).

By Mike Seymour:

Bryce Bayer, the Eastman Kodak scientist who invented a now pivotal color filter for digital photography that bears his name, has passed away. Bayer, 83, died on November 13th in Bath, Maine.

Petapixel Article:

RIP: Bayer Filter Inventor Bryce Bayer Has Passed Away

Michael Zhang:

Here’s an example showing what a digital camera’s sensor “sees” through a Bayer filter, and the resulting photo that emerges after demosaicing algorithms are used to interpolate the data (i.e. using math to figure out the actual color that should be at each pixel based on purely red, green, and blue readings)