Kelley, E.
, Lindfors, M.
and Penczek, J.
(2005),
Display Daylight Ambient Contrast Measurement Methods and Daylight Readability, Journal of the Society for Information Display, [online], https://tsapps.nist.gov/publication/get_pdf.cfm?pub_id=32394
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Display Daylight Ambient Contrast Measurement Methods and Daylight Readability
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, Max Lindfors, John Penczek
Abstract
We propose a composite measurement method to characterize display performance and readability under both daylight and sunlight illumination. The measurements are performed separately in a laboratory, then combined and scaled to daylight and sunlight levels. Measurements of the low-resolution bidirectional reflectance distribution function can be included to simulate hand-held display utilization.Citation
Journal of the Society for Information Display
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Keywords
contrast, daylight readability, diffuse reflectance, directed source, display measurements, display readability, display reflection measurements, dynamic range, maximum readability, skylight reflection, sunlight readability, sunlight reflection
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Created October 24, 2005, Updated October 12, 2021