Abstract
A wide range of measurements may be required in order to fully characterize the properties of a display, but these are generally based on a relatively small number of fundamental measurement parameters: luminance, color, spatial uniformity, angular distribution, reflectance, and temporal characteristics. This chapter provides an overview of the methods and instrumentation used for these underpinning measurements, and outlines the major associated sources of potential measurement error and uncertainty.
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- BRDF:
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Bidirectional Reflectance Distribution Function
- CIE:
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Commission International de l’Éclairage
- CRT:
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Cathode Ray Tube Display
- LCD:
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Liquid Crystal Display
- LED:
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Light Emitting Diode
- PC:
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Personal Computer
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DeCusatis (1998) Handbook of applied photometry. Springer, New York
Grum F, Becherer RJ (1979) Optical radiation measurements volume 1: radiometry. Academic, New York
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This work was funded by the National Measurement Office of the UK Department for Business, Innovation and Skills.
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Goodman, T. (2012). Overview of the Photometric Characterisation of Visual Displays. In: Chen, J., Cranton, W., Fihn, M. (eds) Handbook of Visual Display Technology. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-79567-4_21
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