Gray-scale reproduction of display under ambient illumination

Abstract

The effectiveness of using a PLUGE (picture line-up generating equipment) signal to improve a display's gray-scale reproduction under ambient illumination was investigated using two new metrics. Experimental results showed that adjusting a display's brightness with a PLUGE signal enables more precise adjustment than with a general image. A metric for the volume of reproducible color space was used to describe the area that a display can reproduce in the color space. A metric for the color reproduction reduction rate was used to describe how gray-scale reproduction deteriorates under ambient illumination. The values obtained for these metrics showed that adjusting the brightness with a PLUGE signal improves gray-scale reproduction.