Bayer sensor
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A Bayer sensor is an image sensor which uses a Bayer filter to create a color image. The Bayer filter is placed over light sensitive elements in a image sensor so that each element receives one color selected from red, green, and blue.
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This image shows a Bayer filter for red, green and blue pixels. There are twice as many green pixels as red and blue ones. When converting a Bayer image to RGB format, the missing color information is interpolated from neighboring pixels.