Vision, light, and color –Mechanism of seeing and techniques for displaying

Abstract

Having a good knowledge of physics of light and mechanism of visual perception is necessary, when one controls colors as one likes and creates comfortable and efficient environments. Here several topics are introduced on color perception and its applications, such as perceived brightness and its metric, elderly color vision and a color recovery lighting system, color vision deficiency and a color-barrier-free lighting, and color adaptation and a color management for displays.