Study on dichromatism's color appearance to LED lights

Mamoru Takamatsu*, Yoshio Nakashima, Tetsuya Fujita, Kazuhiro Sawa

*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

In recent years, with the utilization of blue Light Emitting Diode, the Light Emitting Diode element is beginning to be actively used in various scenes, and Light Emitting Diode is used even for traffic light now. The Light Emitting Diode traffic signal light has little power consumption as compared with the traffic signal light using the conventional electric bulb, and spreads to progress increasingly from now on. Because the discernment of the yellow of a signal light and red is difficult for sense-of-color unusual person, in the present signal light system, yellow signal light color is made somewhat brighter than red signal light. The aim of the present study is to collect the fundamental data for the display of the traffic signal light, which is easy to be recognized also by sense-of-color unusual persons. The results revealed that the optimal brightness of the yellow light from which a sense-of-color unusual person can distinguish the difference between yellow and red, i.e., "visual barrier-free domain", is the area where yellow light is 2.8 times brightness of the red light.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings of the IADIS International Conference Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction 2011, Part of the IADIS Multi Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems 2011, MCCSIS 2011
Pages471-473
Number of pages3
StatePublished - 2011
EventIADIS International Conference Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction 2011, Part of the IADIS Multi Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems 2011, MCCSIS 2011 - Rome, Italy
Duration: 2011/07/242011/07/26

Publication series

NameProceedings of the IADIS International Conference Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction 2011, Part of the IADIS Multi Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems 2011, MCCSIS 2011

Conference

ConferenceIADIS International Conference Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction 2011, Part of the IADIS Multi Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems 2011, MCCSIS 2011
Country/TerritoryItaly
CityRome
Period2011/07/242011/07/26

Keywords

  • Color appearance
  • Dichromatism
  • LED lights

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Human-Computer Interaction
  • Information Systems

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