Optimum display luminance dependence on ambient illuminance

Seung-Ryeol Kim; Seung-Hyuck Lee; Dong-Hwan Jeon; Jeong-Sik Kim; Seung-Woo Lee

doi:10.1117/1.OE.56.1.017110

25 January 2017 Optimum display luminance dependence on ambient illuminance

Seung-Ryeol Kim, Seung-Hyuck Lee, Dong-Hwan Jeon, Jeong-Sik Kim, Seung-Woo Lee

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Optical Engineering, Vol. 56, Issue 1, 017110 (January 2017). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.OE.56.1.017110

Abstract

Viewing high luminance displays under low light conditions causes unbearable glare. On the other hand, viewing low luminance displays under bright light conditions reduces visibility. We investigate the comfortable display luminance range for several different conditions of ambient illuminance through a psychophysical experiment, which involved 30 subjects. The obtained upper (lower) limits of the comfortable zone were 516 (113), 574 (116), 612 (130), 664 (154), 737 (177), 790 (204), and 836 (246) cd/m2, for ambient illuminances of 50, 100, 200, 500, 1000, 2000, and 5000 lx, respectively.

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Seung-Ryeol Kim, Seung-Hyuck Lee, Dong-Hwan Jeon, Jeong-Sik Kim, and Seung-Woo Lee "Optimum display luminance dependence on ambient illuminance," Optical Engineering 56(1), 017110 (25 January 2017). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.OE.56.1.017110

Received: 17 August 2016; Accepted: 4 January 2017; Published: 25 January 2017

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