Communications: electrical – Condition responsive indicating system – Specified indicator structure
Reexamination Certificate
2001-02-20
2003-09-30
Pope, Daryl (Department: 2632)
Communications: electrical
Condition responsive indicating system
Specified indicator structure
Reexamination Certificate
active
06628204
ABSTRACT:
TECHNICAL FIELD
This invention relates to an odor communication system in multimedia systems for receiving and/or sending an odor thorough a telecommunication line.
BACKGROUND ART
According to the publication entitled “Ko-Do” by Onmasa Sanjounishi ankou-sha, 1971, “Ko-Do,” which had been originated in “Ko-Awase” which had been loved in the Hei-An period and developed to “Ko-do,” has been practiced continuously until now from the era of Yoshimasa Ashikaga. By practicing the Ko-Do, practicing people can reduce stress, concentrate their attention on their mind, and then be motivated for their progressive lives. The Ko-do has been superior traditional culture in order to enable people to become happier and comfortable. Further, according to the publication entitled “Shuu-Kaku-No-Hanashi” by Sadayuki Takagi (Iwanami-Shoten, 1974), human beings breathe deeply and become healthy and good mind condition when human beings smell a good odor. Moreover, smelling the good odor functions as the sedative effect for bringing down the blood pressure, reducing excessive stress, and so forth. There are so many people who can live life to the fullest and become the supreme happiest mind condition by perceiving lover's smell.
It is capable of being found that the odor has the inscrutable power to all the creatures including human beings. There are so many kinds of odors in our living circumstances, and it has been done since the dawn of history to try to identify the kinds of odors. According to the idea expressing “A Sense and A Sensible Thing” by Aristotle, TIEPI AI&Sgr;&THgr;H&Sgr;EO&Sgr; KAI AI&Sgr;&THgr; HT&OHgr;N, BC348~334, in the Greek period, the odors were divided into seven classes such as sweet, sour, pungent, rich, fatty, astringent, and excreta. All the creatures including human beings communicate with identifying the odors. In the world of creatures, a special odor is secreted with having the special meaning to some creatures and is sent to the special group and other creatures. For example, an insect, such as a silkworm, having the extreme keen sense of smell communicates with each other in the distance of more than 10 kilometers by emitting a special odor (pheromone) from a gland in the thorax region.
U.S. Pat. No. 5,724,256 to Lee et al. discloses a computer controlled olfactory mixing and dispensing system for use in multimedia computer applications. U.S. Pat. No. 5,767,385 issued to Bundy et al. discloses an automated forced-choice dynamic-dilution olfactometer and the method of operating the same which is directed to an automatic forced-choice, dynamic-dilution olfactometer aimed at measuring odor concentration associated with air from and surrounding livestock buildings. It measures quantitatively how many times more concentrated the odor is than its threshold concentration. The measurement is made through an olfactometer and panelists. U.S. Pat. No. 5,675,070 to Gelperin discloses artificial olfactory systems that use gas sensor arrays to identify an object by the odor emitted by that object. U.S. Pat. No. 4,895,017 to Pyke et al. discloses a chemical vapor sensor and a method for sensing and identifying chemical vapors using a micro-computer. U.S. Pat. No. 5,177,994 discloses an odor sensing system in which an odor signal detected by a sensor is identified by a neural network. Japanese Patent Application Toku-kai-Hei 4-283657 to Kamejima discloses a gas chromatograph mass analysis apparatus using the gas chromatograph apparatus and the mass analysis apparatus.
Those systems, however, do not disclose odor communication systems. Japanese Patent Application Toku-kai-Hei 9-292824 to Sekiguchi and Sato discloses a similar odor producing medium as well as a similar odor producing method and apparatus for enabling a telecommunication receiver to experience the same or desired odor sense as a transmitter using encoded odor information. Further, it discloses a method and apparatus for producing an odor by selectively destroying a micro capsule coated on a disk by a laser beam being irradiated. However, it does not disclose the odor communication system based on a switching method and apparatus for selecting an desired odor element by employing the odor element cells and using an odor selection mechanism. Further, the conventional odor communication performed by all the creature including human beings has the problem in which there has been a limit of the distance for communicating to the object and the contents of communication have been influenced by the natural environment and phenomenon. The odor communication system, which has been capable of being relied, not been influenced by natural conditions and phenomena, and not had a limit of the distance for communication, has not existed.
Thus, the object of the present invention is to provide the highly reliable odor communication system which is not capable of being influenced by natural conditions and phenomena and does not have a limit of the distance for communication.
DISCLOSURE OF INVENTION
In a data transmitting and receiving system including a data transmitting unit and a data receiving unit, the data transmitting unit has an odor analysis unit for measuring mass and constituents of an odor of a source producing an odor and the data receiving unit has an odor emission unit for emitting the odor based on mass and constituents of the odor transmitted from the data transmitting system.
The odor analysis unit has an odor constituent separation unit for separating the odor constituents of the source producing the odor and a mass analysis unit for outputting a mass spectrum of the odor constituents.
The odor emission unit has an odor base (OB) including a plurality of odor element cells arranged in advance corresponding to each root odor classification of a plurality of odors and an odor base management system (OBMS) for managing the odor base in order to emit the predetermined odor based on graphic data indicating keeping time and peak value for indicating the strength of each odor element, humidity, temperature, mass and mass ratio, and each odor element of the source producing the odor transmitted from an odor communication system for the sending site.
The data receiving unit has a data base for storing an odor record containing information managing a plurality of odor element cells arranged in advance corresponding to each root odor classification of a plurality of odors and a data base management system for extracting the odor record corresponding to each odor element of the source producing the odor transmitted from the data transmitting system and outputting to the odor emission unit.
The odor record has information such as an identification number, an odor element cell validity date, a beginning date of an odor element cell, a horizontal direction position (X), a vertical direction position (Y), and a height position (Z) in order to designate the odor element cell of the odor emission unit.
The odor base management system selects the designated odor element cell from the odor base based on the OB management record containing emission volume control information for emitting the specified volume of the odor from the odor element cell and position information such as the horizontal direction position (X), the vertical direction position (Y), and the height position (Z) in order to designate the odor element cell and emits the odor.
The odor communication system has a compressed air ventilation unit for sending compressed air, a purifier for exchanging compressed air with purified compressed air, an odor element cell storage unit for outputting an odorous air containing the emitted odor in purified air by selecting the odor element cell according to an operation signal from the odor base management system, a mixer for mixing the odorous air output from the odor element cell storage unit, an odor analysis unit for outputting a constituent analysis result to the odor base management system by executing an odor constituent analysis of the odor mixed in the mixer, a valve for releasing or shutting off releasing the odor to an
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