Luminance requirements for lighted signage

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6337, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Freyssinier, Jean Paul ^a   Narendran, Nadarajah ^a   Bullough, John D ^a  

^a RENSSELAER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Background; Backlighted; Brightness; Channel letter; LEDs; Light emitting diodes; Luminance; Red; Retail; Signage

Indexed keywords

ENERGY UTILIZATION; LIGHT SOURCES; POLLUTION;

CHANNEL LETTER; LUMINANCE STANDARDS; SIGNAGE;

LIGHT EMITTING DIODES;

EID: 33751103720     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.681422     Document Type: Conference Paper

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