Color mismatch and observer metamerism between conventional liquid crystal displays and organic light emitting diode displays, part II : adjacent stimuli with a larger field of view

Abstract

In part I of this study [Opt. Express 29, 12292 (2021)], 50 human observers matched the color appearance of six color stimuli produced by four smartphone displays, including one conventional liquid crystal display (LCD) and three organic light emitting diode (OLED) displays, to those produced by a reference smartphone OLED display. The matching and reference stimuli had a field of view (FOV) around 4.77° and were 5.72° apart. In this experiment, we carefully designed and built a new apparatus to make the two stimuli adjacent to each other with an FOV around 20.2°. This not only made the viewing condition in the experiment similar to the typical viewing condition of smartphone displays, but also allowed for an easier color matching, resulting in smaller intra- and inter-observer variations. The performance of the four CMFs, however, were not significantly changed with the increase of the FOV. The CIE 2006 2° CMFs still had the best performance in characterizing the color matches, which did not support the recommendation of using 10° CMFs for stimuli with an FOV beyond 4°. Meanwhile, for the pairs of stimuli with matched color appearance, the LCD display always had the greatest chromaticity differences and degrees of observer metamerism among the four displays, regardless of the CMFs. In particular, the chromaticities of the stimuli produced by the LCD display were always shifted towards the -u’+v’ direction in the CIE 1976 u’v’ chromaticity diagram, when calculated using the CIE 1931 CMFs. This implies that the neutral colors shown on LCD displays would have a yellow-green tint on OLED displays, if they were calibrated to the same chromaticities using the CIE 1931 2° CMFs.