Skip to main content

Ethnic and Social Aspects of Lighting

  • Living reference work entry
  • First Online:
Handbook of Advanced Lighting Technology
  • 340 Accesses

Abstract

In the development of the LED light sources that will be introduced here, the adopted color rendering evaluation indexes include Duv (Methods for determining distribution temperature and color temperature or correlated color temperature of light sources, JIS Z (8725–1999)), PS (Light 82–11:895–901, 1998), and FCI (Color Res Appl 32–5:361–371) in addition to the General Color Rendering Index (Ra) (Method of specifying color rendering properties of light sources, JIS Z (8726–1990)). The individual target values are defined to clarify the spectral radiation distribution. This article focuses on the above characteristics: the technical details used in the development of a LED light source called “Favorable Color (Bikou-shoku),” which preferably renders facial skin color, and “Vivid Color (Saikou-shoku),” which vividly renders the true colors of fresh food and plants.

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this chapter

Institutional subscriptions

Similar content being viewed by others

References

  • Hashimoto K, Nayatani Y (1990) Evaluation and estimation of sense of brightness based on the feeling of four-color combination, The Illuminating Engineering Institute of Japan. Journal of the Illuminating Engineering Institute of Japan 74–10:96–101

    Google Scholar 

  • Hashimoto K, Yano T (2007) New method for specifying color-rendering properties of light sources based on feelings of contrast. Color Res Appl 32–5:361–371

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • JIS Z (8726–1990) Method of specifying color rendering properties of light sources

    Google Scholar 

  • JIS Z (8725–1999) Methods for determining distribution temperature and color temperature or correlated color temperature of light sources

    Google Scholar 

  • JIS Z (8729–2004) Color specification L * a * b * and L * u * v * color spaces

    Google Scholar 

  • Tsukitani A, Saito T (2013) Light source to render the preferred color of plants – study of the color rendering optimization based on a visual clarity index, FCI. In: The illuminating engineering society annual conference proceedings. Nagoya, Japan, p. 39

    Google Scholar 

  • Yamaguchi S, Saito T (2012) Spectral characteristics of LED light sources for preferred appearance of facial skin color. Panasonic Tech J 58–2:62–66

    Google Scholar 

  • Yano T, Hashimoto K (1998) Preference index for Japanese complexion color under illumination, The Illuminating Engineering Institute of Japan. Light J 82–11:895–901

    Google Scholar 

Download references

Author information

Authors and Affiliations

Authors

Corresponding author

Correspondence to Shin Ukegawa .

Editor information

Editors and Affiliations

Rights and permissions

Reprints and permissions

Copyright information

© 2015 Springer International Publishing Switzerland

About this entry

Cite this entry

Ukegawa, S. (2015). Ethnic and Social Aspects of Lighting. In: Karlicek, R., Sun, CC., Zissis, G., Ma, R. (eds) Handbook of Advanced Lighting Technology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-00295-8_52-1

Download citation

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-00295-8_52-1

  • Received:

  • Accepted:

  • Published:

  • Publisher Name: Springer, Cham

  • Online ISBN: 978-3-319-00295-8

  • eBook Packages: Springer Reference EngineeringReference Module Computer Science and Engineering

Publish with us

Policies and ethics