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Character contrast

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Author(s)

Edward F. Kelley

Abstract

Measurement of a small black area on a white electronic display screen is often accompanied by serious contamination from veiling glare in the detector. The black measurement can be thousands of percent in error. Character-stroke-contrast or small-area-contrast measurements are greatly improved by using a replica mask of known luminance even in uniform ambient conditions.
Citation
Information Display Magazine
Volume
25
Issue
1
Pub Type
Others

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Keywords

black-luminance measurements, character-stroke contrast, electronic-display measurement, replica mask, small-area contrast
Optoelectronics and Metrology

Citation

Kelley, E. (2009), Character contrast, Information Display Magazine, [online], https://tsapps.nist.gov/publication/get_pdf.cfm?pub_id=901128 (Accessed October 14, 2025)

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Created January 1, 2009, Updated February 19, 2017
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