The camera generally recognised as the first digital still snapper was a prototype (US patent 4,131,919) developed...

The camera generally recognised as the first digital still snapper was a prototype (US patent 4,131,919) developed by Eastman Kodak engineer Steven Sasson in 1975. He cobbled together some Motorola parts with a Kodak movie-camera lens and some newly invented Fairchild CCD electronic sensors.

And yet, like IBM, they never managed to maintain a dominant position in the technology.
https://www.cnet.com/news/photos-the-history-of-the-digital-camera/