High dynamic range head-up displays

High Dynamic Range Displays and Low Vision

The variations in light energy we experience are huge. For example, the average luminance outdoors can be 100 million times greater during the day than at night. The luminance dynamic range at any moment can also be large, with contrasts on the order of 10,000:1 from highlights to shadows. Luminance levels can also change dramatically over time and from place to place. Vision functions over the...

Next-Generation Head-up Displays

Veiling glare and perceived black in high dynamic range displays.

A perceptual experiment was conducted to measure the visibility of black-level differences in the proximity of a bright glare source. In a controlled viewing environment, visual difference thresholds were adaptively measured using dark, shadow-detail images shown on a high dynamic range liquid crystal display while an external LED lamp was used to induce intra-ocular glare over a small range of...

Photometric image processing for high dynamic range displays

Many real-world scenes contain a dynamic range that exceeds conventional display technology by several orders of magnitude. Through the combination of several existing technologies, new high dynamic range displays, capable of reproducing a range of intensities much closer to that of real environments, have been constructed. These benefits come at the cost of more optically complex devices; invo...

The Reproduction of Specular Highlights on High Dynamic Range Displays

Recent advances in the design of high dynamic range (HDR) monitors enable the display of images having a large dynamic range, close to that encountered in the real world. As their usage will increase, we will be confronted with the problem of rerendering images that have been mapped to standard dynamic range (SDR) displays so that they look natural on HDR monitors. We address this issue for SDR...