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visual angle

n
(Physiology) the angle subtended by an object at the lens of the eye
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(19) measured the CSF using the Vision Contrast Test System VCTS 6500 with spatial frequencies of 1.5, 3.0, 6.0, 12.0, and 18.0 cpd of visual angle and a luminance of 100 cd/[m.sup.2].
It has a horizontal visual angle range of 360-degrees and vertical angle range of 260-degrees.
Two arrows were used as target stimuli, one pointing to the left and one to the right, and the arrows were approximately 3.34[degrees] visual angle (3.5 cm) in length and 0.96[degrees] visual angle (1.0 cm) in height.
In the action point model firstly developed by Michaels [18], drivers perceived relative velocity according to the changes on the visual angle subtended by the lead vehicle.
If a car appears small (subtends a small visual angle on the back of our eyes), then we estimate that car to be a certain distance away.
The checks subtended the visual angle of 54.6 min while the screen subtended a visual angle of 19[degrees].
Researchers at the National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT) in Japan and the National Chiao Tun University (NCTU) in Taiwan have developed a new projection-type see-through holographic 3D display that increases both the display size and visual angle of the holographic display compared to current display technologies, it is hoped that this latest technology will have applications in digital signage, head-up-displays (HUDs) and smart glasses.
The system, with accuracy of 0.5[degrees]-1[degrees] visual angle, provided eye-gaze coordinates and pupil size with a sampling rate of 60 Hz.
The contrast sensitivity was measured to visually achromatic sinusoidal grating with a spatial frequency of 0.2 to 30 cycles per degree of visual angle (cpd), using the psychophysical method of adjustment (Castro et al., 2009).
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