Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.

Makoto Inohara

Tadashi Yano

Kenjiro Hashimoto

Yukio Akashi

In an illumination control method of the present invention, illumination of an appreciation space is controlled in association with an image displayed on an image display device so that a realism of the image displayed on a screen of the image display device can be enhanced, where an appreciator appreciating the image is in the appreciation space. More specifically, one or more light sources provided in the appreciation space is controlled so that at least one parameter of a level, a light color, a luminous intensity distribution, and a direction of illumination to the appreciation space is made substantially coincident with a corresponding parameter of a virtual image space imaginarily created from the image displayed on the image display device.

Illumination control method and illumination device

A warm white fluorescent lamp wherein the visual clarity index of said lamp is in a range from 121 to 145 inclusive, the correlated color temperature of its light color is in a range from 2700 K to 3150 K inclusive, and the chromaticity point of said light color is located within a chromaticity range where distance of chromaticity point from the Planckian locus on the CIE 1960 uv chromaticity diagram is not less than -0.005 and not greater than +0.005.

Warm white fluorescent lamp

A general-purpose discharge lamp of the present invention has a reciprocal correlated color temperature Mr and an index for feeling of contrast M, wherein the index for feeling of contrast M and the reciprocal correlated color temperature Mr satisfy the relationships:

General-purpose discharge lamp and general-purpose lighting apparatus

A discharge lamp and an illumination instrument for general illumination which is able to reproduce a preferable skin color of Japanese women by an illumination light, in relation to the skin test color of Japanese women, which is important for general illumination, and is characterized in that, when the color point of the skin test color No. 15 for calculating the color rendering index according to JIS Z 8726-1990 under the light of the discharge lamp is converted to the color point under the standard illuminant CIE D65 using the CIE chromatic adaptation equation, the color point is in the elliptical region of which the major axis is 0.0068, the minor axis is 0.0037 and the inclination from the u' axis is 40.degree., centering around (u',v')=(0.2425, 0.4895) on the CIE 1976 u'v' chromaticity diagram.

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Katano, Japan

Makoto Inohara