Fujifilm Proposes RGBW Pixels with Different Size

Japan-language Egami blog reports that Fujifilm applies for a Japanese patent 2013-258168 on different-sized RGBW filter pattern. The green and white pixels are bigger to minimize the luminance noise at the expense of chrominance noise elevation. YourNewsTicker nicely painted the B&W figure from the application:

Fujifilm Proposes RGBW Pixels with Different Size
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