Sony Applies for Triangular and Hexagonal Pixels Patent

Sony Alpha Rumors quotes Japanese-language Egami blog describing the new Sony patent on triangular and hexagonal pixels with quite complex color arrangements:

RGBCMY 6-color arrangement

RGBCMYWW 8-color arrangement

The main advantage of the new design is said to be: "The benefits of the combined use of CMY filters, an RGB filter spectral sensitivity characteristics , so different, is that you can improve the color reproducibility by performing image processing well."

Thanks to AA for the link!