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Metrology and robustness of bright-room contrast measurements

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Author(s)

Edward F. Kelley

Abstract

Bright-room contrast measurements methods are being proposed in standards committees to characterize flat panel displays for living-room ambient environments. Some proposals involve creating a room with an overhead light. By modeling the room as a sphere, we show how such room-based measurement methods can be very irreproducible. Such methods can be modified and made robust by making direct-source measurements combined with integrating-sphere-based diffuse reflectance measurements.
Proceedings Title
Digest of Technical Papers of the Society for Information Display International Symposium
Volume
38
Issue
2
Conference Dates
May 20-25, 2007
Conference Location
Long Beach, CA

Keywords

BRDF, bright-room contrast, diffuse reflectance, directed-source reflection measurements, display reflection measurements, FPD, quasi-Lambertian reflection, robust measurements, sampling sphere, specular reflectance

Citation

Kelley, E. (2007), Metrology and robustness of bright-room contrast measurements, Digest of Technical Papers of the Society for Information Display International Symposium, Long Beach, CA, [online], https://tsapps.nist.gov/publication/get_pdf.cfm?pub_id=32625 (Accessed October 12, 2025)

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Created May 23, 2007, Updated January 27, 2020
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