Bryce Edward Bayer was an American scientist who invented the Bayer filter pattern, which is used in most modern color digital cameras.
10 Facts About Bryce Bayer
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Bryce Edward Bayer was born in Portland, Maine, on August 15,1929, to Alton and Marguerite Willard Bayer.
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Bryce Bayer graduated in 1947 from Deering High School in Portland, where he spent a good deal of time in the school darkroom.
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Bryce Bayer pursued further studies at the University of Rochester, from which he earned a master's degree in industrial statistics in 1960.
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In 1974, while working for Kodak Research Labs, Bryce Bayer was asked by his colleague Peter Dillon to consider the best color pattern to use for an integral color image sensor being developed by Dillon.
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Bryce Bayer documented his ideas in his KRL lab notebook on May 24,1974, as shown in the figure.
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Bryce Bayer was so modest and unassuming, it took me years to realize what a genius he really was.
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Bryce Bayer led a group in the areas of computer programming, applied statistics, information science, and applied mathematics.
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The Bryce Bayer filter enables a digital imaging system to do what the eye does.
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Bryce Bayer died on November 13,2012, in Bath, Maine, of "a long illness related to dementia," his son Douglas told The New York Times.