Determining Contrast Sensitivity Functions for Monochromatic Light Emitted by High-Brightness LEDs

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5187, Issue , 2004, Pages 294-300

  Ramamurthy, Vasudha ^a   Narendran, Nadarajah ^a   Freyssinier, Jean Paul ^a   Raghavan, Ramesh ^a   Boyce, Peter ^a  

^a RENSSELAER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Backlighted; Blue; Channel; Contrast sensitivity function; Green; LED; Letter; Red; Signage; Uniformity

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC SIGNS; FREQUENCIES; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INCANDESCENT LAMPS; LIGHTING; MONOCHROMATORS;

BACKLIGHTED; BLUE; CHANNEL; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY FUNCTION (CSF); GREEN; LETTER; RED; SIGNAGE; UNIFORMITY;

LIGHT EMITTING DIODES;

EID: 1842739320     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.509195     Document Type: Conference Paper

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