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Luminance Requirements for Lighted Signage
Luminance Requirements for Lighted Signage Jean Paul Freyssinier, Nadarajah Narendran, John D. Bullough Lighting Research Center Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY 12180 www.lrc.rpi.edu Freyssinier, J.P., N. Narendran, and J.D. Bullough. 2006. Luminance requirements for lighted signage. Sixth International Conference on Solid State Lighting, Proceedings of SPIE 6337, 63371M. Copyright 2006 Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers. This paper was published in the Sixth International Conference on Solid State Lighting, Proceedings of SPIE and is made available as an electronic preprint with permission of SPIE. One print or electronic copy may be made for personal use only. Systematic or multiple reproduction, distribution to multiple locations via electronic or other means, duplication of any material in this paper for a fee or for commercial purposes, or modification of the content of the paper are prohibited. Luminance Requirements for Lighted Signage Jean Paul Freyssinier*, Nadarajah Narendran, John D. Bullough Lighting Research Center, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 21 Union Street, Troy, NY 12180 USA ABSTRACT Light-emitting diode (LED) technology is presently targeted to displace traditional light sources in backlighted signage. The literature shows that brightness and contrast are perhaps the two most important elements of a sign that determine its attention-getting capabilities and its legibility. Presently, there are no luminance standards for signage, and the practice of developing brighter signs to compete with signs in adjacent businesses is becoming more commonplace. Sign luminances in such cases may far exceed what people usually need for identifying and reading a sign. Furthermore, the practice of higher sign luminance than needed has many negative consequences, including higher energy use and light pollution. -
Report on Digital Sign Brightness
REPORT ON DIGITAL SIGN BRIGHTNESS Prepared for the Nevada State Department of Transportation, Washoe County, City of Reno and City of Sparks By Jerry Wachtel, President, The Veridian Group, Inc., Berkeley, CA November 2014 1 Table of Contents PART 1 ......................................................................................................................... 3 Introduction. ................................................................................................................ 3 Background. ................................................................................................................. 3 Key Terms and Definitions. .......................................................................................... 4 Luminance. .................................................................................................................................................................... 4 Illuminance. .................................................................................................................................................................. 5 Reflected Light vs. Emitted Light (Traditional Signs vs. Electronic Signs). ...................................... 5 Measuring Luminance and Illuminance ........................................................................ 6 Measuring Luminance. ............................................................................................................................................. 6 Measuring Illuminance. .......................................................................................................................................... -
Lecture 3: the Sensor
4.430 Daylighting Human Eye ‘HDR the old fashioned way’ (Niemasz) Massachusetts Institute of Technology ChriChristoph RstophReeiinhartnhart Department of Architecture 4.4.430 The430The SeSensnsoror Building Technology Program Happy Valentine’s Day Sun Shining on a Praline Box on February 14th at 9.30 AM in Boston. 1 Happy Valentine’s Day Falsecolor luminance map Light and Human Vision 2 Human Eye Outside view of a human eye Ophtalmogram of a human retina Retina has three types of photoreceptors: Cones, Rods and Ganglion Cells Day and Night Vision Photopic (DaytimeVision): The cones of the eye are of three different types representing the three primary colors, red, green and blue (>3 cd/m2). Scotopic (Night Vision): The rods are repsonsible for night and peripheral vision (< 0.001 cd/m2). Mesopic (Dim Light Vision): occurs when the light levels are low but one can still see color (between 0.001 and 3 cd/m2). 3 VisibleRange Daylighting Hanbook (Reinhart) The human eye can see across twelve orders of magnitude. We can adapt to about 10 orders of magnitude at a time via the iris. Larger ranges take time and require ‘neural adaptation’. Transition Spaces Outside Atrium Circulation Area Final destination 4 Luminous Response Curve of the Human Eye What is daylight? Daylight is the visible part of the electromagnetic spectrum that lies between 380 and 780 nm. UV blue green yellow orange red IR 380 450 500 550 600 650 700 750 wave length (nm) 5 Photometric Quantities Characterize how a space is perceived. Illuminance Luminous Flux Luminance Luminous Intensity Luminous Intensity [Candela] ~ 1 candela Courtesy of Matthew Bowden at www.digitallyrefreshing.com. -
Illumination and Distance
PHYS 1400: Physical Science Laboratory Manual ILLUMINATION AND DISTANCE INTRODUCTION How bright is that light? You know, from experience, that a 100W light bulb is brighter than a 60W bulb. The wattage measures the energy used by the bulb, which depends on the bulb, not on where the person observing it is located. But you also know that how bright the light looks does depend on how far away it is. That 100W bulb is still emitting the same amount of energy every second, but if you are farther away from it, the energy is spread out over a greater area. You receive less energy, and perceive the light as less bright. But because the light energy is spread out over an area, it’s not a linear relationship. When you double the distance, the energy is spread out over four times as much area. If you triple the distance, the area is nine Twice the distance, ¼ as bright. Triple the distance? 11% as bright. times as great, meaning that you receive only 1/9 (or 11%) as much energy from the light source. To quantify the amount of light, we will use units called lux. The idea is simple: energy emitted per second (Watts), spread out over an area (square meters). However, a lux is not a W/m2! A lux is a lumen per m2. So, what is a lumen? Technically, it’s one candela emitted uniformly across a solid angle of 1 steradian. That’s not helping, is it? Examine the figure above. The source emits light (energy) in all directions simultaneously. -
Exposure Metering and Zone System Calibration
Exposure Metering Relating Subject Lighting to Film Exposure By Jeff Conrad A photographic exposure meter measures subject lighting and indicates camera settings that nominally result in the best exposure of the film. The meter calibration establishes the relationship between subject lighting and those camera settings; the photographer’s skill and metering technique determine whether the camera settings ultimately produce a satisfactory image. Historically, the “best” exposure was determined subjectively by examining many photographs of different types of scenes with different lighting levels. Common practice was to use wide-angle averaging reflected-light meters, and it was found that setting the calibration to render the average of scene luminance as a medium tone resulted in the “best” exposure for many situations. Current calibration standards continue that practice, although wide-angle average metering largely has given way to other metering tech- niques. In most cases, an incident-light meter will cause a medium tone to be rendered as a medium tone, and a reflected-light meter will cause whatever is metered to be rendered as a medium tone. What constitutes a “medium tone” depends on many factors, including film processing, image postprocessing, and, when appropriate, the printing process. More often than not, a “medium tone” will not exactly match the original medium tone in the subject. In many cases, an exact match isn’t necessary—unless the original subject is available for direct comparison, the viewer of the image will be none the wiser. It’s often stated that meters are “calibrated to an 18% reflectance,” usually without much thought given to what the statement means. -
Spectral Light Measuring
Spectral Light Measuring 1 Precision GOSSEN Foto- und Lichtmesstechnik – Your Guarantee for Precision and Quality GOSSEN Foto- und Lichtmesstechnik is specialized in the measurement of light, and has decades of experience in its chosen field. Continuous innovation is the answer to rapidly changing technologies, regulations and markets. Outstanding product quality is assured by means of a certified quality management system in accordance with ISO 9001. LED – Light of the Future The GOSSEN Light Lab LED technology has experience rapid growth in recent years thanks to the offers calibration services, for our own products, as well as for products from development of LEDs with very high light efficiency. This is being pushed by other manufacturers, and issues factory calibration certificates. The optical the ban on conventional light bulbs with low energy efficiency, as well as an table used for this purpose is subject to strict test equipment monitoring, and ever increasing energy-saving mentality and environmental awareness. LEDs is traced back to the PTB in Braunschweig, Germany (German Federal Institute have long since gone beyond their previous status as effects lighting and are of Physics and Metrology). Aside from the PTB, our lab is the first in Germany being used for display illumination, LED displays and lamps. Modern means to be accredited for illuminance by DAkkS (German accreditation authority), of transportation, signal systems and street lights, as well as indoor and and is thus authorized to issue internationally recognized DAkkS calibration outdoor lighting, are no longer conceivable without them. The brightness and certificates. This assures that acquired measured values comply with official color of LEDs vary due to manufacturing processes, for which reason they regulations and, as a rule, stand up to legal argumentation. -
Photometric Calibrations —————————————————————————
NIST Special Publication 250-37 NIST MEASUREMENT SERVICES: PHOTOMETRIC CALIBRATIONS ————————————————————————— Yoshihiro Ohno Optical Technology Division Physics Laboratory National Institute of Standards and Technology Gaithersburg, MD 20899 Supersedes SP250-15 Reprint with changes July 1997 ————————————————————————— U.S. DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE William M. Daley, Secretary Technology Administration Gary R. Bachula, Acting Under Secretary for Technology National Institute of Standards and Technology Robert E. Hebner, Acting Director PREFACE The calibration and related measurement services of the National Institute of Standards and Technology are intended to assist the makers and users of precision measuring instruments in achieving the highest possible levels of accuracy, quality, and productivity. NIST offers over 300 different calibrations, special tests, and measurement assurance services. These services allow customers to directly link their measurement systems to measurement systems and standards maintained by NIST. These services are offered to the public and private organizations alike. They are described in NIST Special Publication (SP) 250, NIST Calibration Services Users Guide. The Users Guide is supplemented by a number of Special Publications (designated as the “SP250 Series”) that provide detailed descriptions of the important features of specific NIST calibration services. These documents provide a description of the: (1) specifications for the services; (2) design philosophy and theory; (3) NIST measurement system; (4) NIST operational procedures; (5) assessment of the measurement uncertainty including random and systematic errors and an error budget; and (6) internal quality control procedures used by NIST. These documents will present more detail than can be given in NIST calibration reports, or than is generally allowed in articles in scientific journals. In the past, NIST has published such information in a variety of ways. -
Light Measurement Handbook from an Oblique Angle, It Should Look As Bright As It Did When Held Perpendicular to Your Line of Vision
Alex Ryer RED Boxes - LINKS to Current Info on Web Site Peabody, MA (USA) To receive International Light's latest Light Measurement Instruments Catalog, contact: InternationalInternational Light Technologies Light 10 Technology Drive Peabody,10 Te11 MA17 01960 Graf Road Tel:New (978) 818-6180 / buryport,Fax: (978) 818-8161 MA 01950 [email protected] / www.intl-lighttech.com Tel: (978) 465-5923 • Fax: (978) 462-0759 [email protected] • http://www.intl-light.com Copyright © 1997 by Alexander D. Ryer All Rights Reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the copyright owner. Requests should be made through the publisher. Technical Publications Dept. International Light Technologies 10 Technology Drive Peabody, MA 01960 ISBN 0-9658356-9-3 Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 97-93677 Second Printing Printed in the United States of America. 2 Contents 1 What is Light? ........................................................... 5 Electromagnetic Wave Theory........................................... 5 Ultraviolet Light ................................................................. 6 Visible Light ........................................................................ 7 Color Models ....................................................................... 7 Infrared Light ..................................................................... -
Radiometric and Photometric Measurements with TAOS Photosensors Contributed by Todd Bishop March 12, 2007 Valid
TAOS Inc. is now ams AG The technical content of this TAOS application note is still valid. Contact information: Headquarters: ams AG Tobelbaderstrasse 30 8141 Unterpremstaetten, Austria Tel: +43 (0) 3136 500 0 e-Mail: [email protected] Please visit our website at www.ams.com NUMBER 21 INTELLIGENT OPTO SENSOR DESIGNER’S NOTEBOOK Radiometric and Photometric Measurements with TAOS PhotoSensors contributed by Todd Bishop March 12, 2007 valid ABSTRACT Light Sensing applications use two measurement systems; Radiometric and Photometric. Radiometric measurements deal with light as a power level, while Photometric measurements deal with light as it is interpreted by the human eye. Both systems of measurement have units that are parallel to each other, but are useful for different applications. This paper will discuss the differencesstill and how they can be measured. AG RADIOMETRIC QUANTITIES Radiometry is the measurement of electromagnetic energy in the range of wavelengths between ~10nm and ~1mm. These regions are commonly called the ultraviolet, the visible and the infrared. Radiometry deals with light (radiant energy) in terms of optical power. Key quantities from a light detection point of view are radiant energy, radiant flux and irradiance. SI Radiometryams Units Quantity Symbol SI unit Abbr. Notes Radiant energy Q joule contentJ energy radiant energy per Radiant flux Φ watt W unit time watt per power incident on a Irradiance E square meter W·m−2 surface Energy is an SI derived unit measured in joules (J). The recommended symbol for energy is Q. Power (radiant flux) is another SI derived unit. It is the derivative of energy with respect to time, dQ/dt, and the unit is the watt (W). -
The Usage of Digital Cameras As Luminance Meters [6502-29]
The usage of digital cameras as luminance meters Dietmar Wüllera, Helke Gabeleb aImage Engineering, Augustinusstrasse 9d, 50226 Frechen, Germany; bFRAMOS Electronic Vertriebs GmbH, Zugspitzstrasse 5 Haus C, 82049 Pullach, Germany ABSTRACT Many luminance measuring tasks require a luminance distribution of the total viewing field. The approach of image- resolving luminance measurement, which could benefit from the continual development of position-resolving radiation detectors, represents a simplification of such measuring tasks. Luminance measure cameras already exist which are specially manufactured for measuring tasks with very high requirements. Due to high-precision solutions these cameras are very expensive and are not commercially viable for many image-resolving measuring tasks. Therefore, it is desirable to measure luminance with digital still cameras which are freely available at reasonable prices. This paper presents a method for the usage of digital still cameras as luminance meters independent of the exposure settings. A calibration of the camera is performed with the help of an OECF (opto-electronic conversion function) measurement and the luminance is calculated with the camera’s digital RGB output values. The test method and computation of the luminance value irrespective of exposure variations is described. The error sources which influence the result of the luminance measurement are also discussed. Keywords: digital camera, luminance, OECF measurement, exposure value 1. INTRODUCTION Many measuring points are necessary for the determination of luminance ratios in a whole scene. If a conventional luminance meter, which can only perform point-by-point measurements, is used for such large-scale assessments, the process of measuring would be very time-consuming. Likewise, measuring small details can not be realised with a luminance meter because of its fixed measuring angle, which is usually not small enough. -
Color-Proposal.Pdf
Colors in Snap! -bh proposal, draft, do not distribute Your computer monitor can display millions of colors, but you probably can’t distinguish that many. For example, here’s red 57, green 180, blue 200: And here’s red 57, green 182, blue 200: You might be able to tell them apart if you see them side by side: … but maybe not even then. Color space—the collection of all possible colors—is three-dimensional, but there are many ways to choose the dimensions. RGB (red-green-blue), the one most commonly used, matches the way TVs and displays produce color. Behind every dot on the screen are three tiny lights: a red one, a green one, and a blue one. But if you want to print colors on paper, your printer probably uses a different set of three colors: CMY (cyan-magenta-yellow). You may have seen the abbreviation CMYK, which represents the common technique of adding black ink to the collection. (Mixing cyan, magenta, and yellow in equal amounts is supposed to result in black ink, but typically it comes out a not-very-intense gray instead.) Other systems that try to mimic human perception are HSL (hue-saturation-lightness) and HSV (hue-saturation-value). If you are a color professional—a printer, a web designer, a graphic designer, an artist—then you need to understand all this. It can also be interesting to learn about. For example, there are colors that you can see but your computer display can’t generate. If that intrigues you, look up color theory in Wikipedia. -
Measuring Luminance with a Digital Camera
® Advanced Test Equipment Rentals Established 1981 www.atecorp.com 800-404-ATEC (2832) Measuring Luminance with a Digital Camera Peter D. Hiscocks, P.Eng Syscomp Electronic Design Limited [email protected] www.syscompdesign.com September 16, 2011 Contents 1 Introduction 2 2 Luminance Standard 3 3 Camera Calibration 6 4 Example Measurement: LED Array 9 5 Appendices 11 3.1 LightMeasurementSymbolsandUnits. 11 3.2 TypicalValuesofLuminance.................................... 11 3.3 AccuracyofPhotometricMeasurements . 11 3.4 PerceptionofBrightnessbytheHumanVisionSystem . 12 3.5 ComparingIlluminanceMeters. 13 3.6 FrostedIncandescentLampCalibration . 14 3.7 LuminanceCalibrationusingMoon,SunorDaylight . 17 3.8 ISOSpeedRating.......................................... 17 3.9 WorkFlowSummary ........................................ 18 3.10 ProcessingScripts.......................................... 18 3.11 UsingImageJToDeterminePixelValue . 18 3.12 UsingImageJToGenerateaLuminance-EncodedImage . 19 3.13 EXIFData.............................................. 19 References 22 1 Introduction There is growing awareness of the problem of light pollution, and with that an increasing need to be able to measure the levels and distribution of light. This paper shows how such measurements may be made with a digital camera. Light measurements are generally of two types: illuminance and lumi- nance. Illuminance is a measure of the light falling on a surface, measured in lux. Illuminanceis widely used by lighting designers to specify light levels. In the assessment of light pollution, horizontal and vertical measurements of illuminance are used to assess light trespass and over lighting. Luminance is the measure of light radiating from a source, measured in candela per square meter. Luminance is perceived by the human viewer as the brightness of a light source. In the assessment of light pollution, (a) Lux meter luminance can be used to assess glare, up-light and spill-light1.