232 results about "Olfactory perception" patented technology

Compositions for treating fabric. The compositions of the present invention may be used to improve various properties of fabrics such as the olfactory perception and/or appearance of the fabric without requiring that the fabrics be put through an entire standard laundry process. Methods of treating the fabrics are also disclosed.

The invention relates to an embedded bionic olfaction smell recognition method and a device, for simulating the olfactory function of humans/animals, recognizing and analyzing the volatile gas having mixed multiple components. The embedded bionic olfaction smell recognition method comprises: (1) using an array sensor to test known smells as much as possible, to obtain a response mode for each smell, thereby establishing an information database of known smells; (2) processing pretreatment on the object smell information detected by the sensor array to realize drift compensation, information compression and noise filter; (3) processing post treatment on the smell information after pretreatment, to extract the characteristics of the object smell information, reduce measurement spatial dimension and extract the information relative to mode recognition; (4) classifying the smell information of the object smell via characteristics; (5) comparing the obtained characteristic classes of the object smell with the known smell characteristic information in the database to provide a recognition result. The invention can recognize different smells, to resolve the selectivity problem of prior single gas sensor. The analyzing device has wide smell map sensitive recognition range.

The invention relates to a humanoid-head robot and a behavior control method thereof, in particular to a humanoid-head robot device with human-computer interaction function and the behavior control method thereof, solving the problems that the prior humanoid-head robot can not completely realize the reproduction of human facial expressions, has limited perceptive function and does not have manual feeling models and the human-computer interaction function. The behavior control method comprises the following steps: a sensor perceptive system outputs perceived information to a main control computer for processing; control system software in a robot behavior control system obtains the relative control quantity of a corresponding motor according to the manual feeling models, executes a motion control instruction to output a PWM pulse by a motion control card to drive the corresponding motor to move to an appointed position and realize the human-computer interaction function and various feeling reactions of a robot; and the sensor perceptive system perceives external feeling signals, recognizes corresponding feeling signals and utilizes the manual feeling models to realize the behavior control of the robot. The invention realizes the reproduction of the human facial expressions and has anthropopathic multi-perception function, such as smell, touch, vision, and the like.

Methods, systems, computer-readable media, and apparatuses for authenticating users using the haptic, aural, and/or olfactory association processing channels that are unique to humans are presented. In some embodiments, a computer-implemented method includes displaying a plurality of images and generating a sensory output, wherein the sensory output includes a tactile sensation that corresponds to one of the plurality of images. The method further includes receiving input corresponding to a selection of an image of the plurality of images and determining whether the selected image matches the one of the plurality of images for which the sensory output corresponds.

The use of the hesperetin of the general formula (I) to enhance the sweetness of the sweet substance or to enhance the sweet olfactory impression of the flavoring agent that gives the olfactory impression of sweetness is described, wherein the hesperetin of the general formula (I) is ( 2S)-enantiomer, (2R)-enantiomer or any desired mixture of two enantiomers, the salt of hesperetin of general formula (I) contains or consists of two or more general formula ( I) a mixture of hesperetin salts, or a mixture comprising or consisting of hesperetin of general formula (I) and one or more salts of hesperetin of general formula (I).

The device comprises a base (1) and an exchangeable case (7), between which are placed corresponding components such as a bottle (9) containing the fragrant liquid and the corresponding wick (8), as well as the heating elements (4) connected to corresponding metallic contacts (5) and mounted on a support (3), also including a platform or printed circuit (2) with electronic components that allow optimizing the diffusion of the fragrance, to prevent olfactory saturation of the user, independently of the manual actuation means that allow regulating the intensity of evaporation of the fragrant liquid itself. The device also includes the corresponding plug (10) placed in correspondence with the part near the bottom end of the base (1).

A stereoscopic electronic nose for simulating an animal olfactory organ structure is provided with two 'noses' and a 'neck' which are similar to those of a creature, sensors in the two 'nasal passages' can respectively induce the concentrations of odor molecules coming from different directions, and the 'neck' can drive the 'noses' to rotate freely, scan the spatial distribution information of the odor molecules in different directions in the ambient environment and utilize the nerve network to analyze the scanned distribution information of the odor molecules in different directions in the ambient environment so as to recognize the odor sources.

The invention provides a specific tag based on computer vision perception and recognition. The specific tag comprises keywords or searches used for query and search in a search engine and a general query searching system. The specific tag adopts two-dimensional codes, bar codes, numbers with specific formats, letters with specific formats, texts with specific formats, special figures, special movements and other image formats which are displayed through self-luminous objects and reflected light objects, and can be used for storing, delivering and publishing key words, searching and so on. Information can be expressed in binary code, Morse code, American standard code for information interchange(ASCII) and so on, and can be encrypted and compressed. The specific tag based on computer vision perception and recognition can be extended to a specific tag based on computer auditory, feeling, taste and olfactory perception and recognition. The invention provides an application system supporting an usage method of the specific tag, and query and searching service can be requested by a non-contact input through perception and recognition, so that the usage method is convenient and safe and has no physical abrasion. The invention also provides a keyword-dedicated specific tag in extended form with unique usage method, which can create a new business model for search business.

The disclosure relates to an inhaler component comprising: a housing (3) with a housing cover; a mouthpiece (4) with a mouthpiece opening (5) for the supply of an inhalable medium into the oral cavity of a user; a flavor reservoir (6) capable of communicating with the environment by diffusion, containing a flavoring (16), for the release of the flavoring (16) into the environment and for the olfactory perception of the same by the user, where a) the housing (3) comprises a housing component (3a); b) the mouthpiece (4) is separably connected with the housing component (3a); c) the housing cover comprises a first cover part (11) and second cover part (14); d) the housing component (3a) forms the first cover part (11); e) the mouthpiece (4) forms the second cover part (14), f) and the flavor reservoir (6) is structurally united with the mouthpiece (4), is superficially formed and is arranged flat on the second cover part (14) or itself forms the second cover part (14).

The present disclosure relates to methods and systems for calculating a food additive. A first method includes identifying chemical compounds of an averse food ingredient, identifying chemical compounds of a flavorful food ingredient and calculating a set of chemical compounds for the food additive such that an olfactory perception of a mixture of the averse food ingredient, the flavorful food ingredient and the food additive is the same as an olfactory perception of only the flavorful food ingredient. A first device includes a database storing information identifying chemical compounds of an averse food ingredient and identifying chemical compounds of a flavorful food ingredient, and a processor for calculating a food additive such that an olfactory perception of flavors of a mixture of the averse food ingredient, the flavorful food ingredient and the food additive is the same as an olfactory perception of only the flavorful food ingredient.

The invention discloses a virtual smell generation device driven by a stepping motor. The device comprises a directional air supply mechanism, a quantitative air discharge mechanism and a shell. The directional air supply mechanism and the quantitative air discharge mechanism are respectively installed on the shell. According to the quantitative air discharge mechanism, a lead screw is driven by the stepping motor to make linear motion, a perfume bottle is pressed, and then smells are sprayed quantitatively. According to the directional air supply mechanism, the smells are blown out along an air supply tube of the shell through rotation of a fan. According to the virtual smell generation device driven by the stepping motor, the lead screw is driven by the stepping motor to make linear motion, the perfume bottle is pressed, and then the smells can be quantitatively output; the smells can be directionally output through the directional air supply mechanism. Through the virtual smell generation device driven by the stepping motor, three smells can be generated and transmitted, and hardware support is provided for human-computer interaction of virtual reality olfactory perception.

The invention belongs to the technical field of semiconductor devices and integrated systems and discloses a quantum dot-based electronic nose chip and a design method thereof. The design method includes the following steps that: (1) a gas sensor array on the electronic nose chip is designed; and (2) a signal processing unit and a micro control unit are designed. The step (1) further includes thefollowing steps that: (1-1) with a quantum dot material adopted as an olfactory acceptor material, a quantum dot gas sensor unit is designed, specifically, a resistive or field effect transistor typesensor unit on a substrate is designed; and (1-2) a quantum dot sensor array of an MEMS or TFT device structure is designed based on the quantum dot gas sensor unit. According to the quantum dot-basedelectronic nose chip and the design method thereof of the invention adopted, the quantum dot material is adopted as the olfactory receptor material; the micro-nano gas sensor is designed and prepared; the sensor array is obtained on the basis of the MEMS and TFT device structure; and the MCU containing a pattern recognition algorithm, and the signal processing unit are integrated on the chip, andtherefore, the quantum dot-based electronic nose chip which has the advantages of high sensitivity , small size and low power consumption can be obtained.

Compositions for treating fabric. The compositions of the present invention may be used to improve various properties of fabrics such as the olfactory perception and/or appearance of the fabric without requiring that the fabrics be put through an entire standard laundry process. Methods of treating the fabrics are also disclosed.

The invention provides a rapid identification method for wine production places and brands. The method comprises the following steps: 1) preparing an olfactory visual sensor array for red wine sampleswith different production places and brands, and acquiring color change information before and after reaction of olfactory visual sensors and volatile components of red wine to obtain odor characteristics of the red grape samples; 2) sampling each red wine sample by using an electronic tongue to obtain taste characteristics of the red wine sample, the taste characteristics including origin characteristics and brand characteristics; 3) constructing fusion features according to the combination of the smell features and the taste features; 4) taking the brand information and the production placeinformation of each red wine sample as labels of the fusion features to obtain a training sample set, and training an extreme learning machine model by using the training sample set; and 5) identifying the production place and brand information of the unknown red wine by using the trained extreme learning machine model. By applying the embodiment of the invention, detection efficiency is improved.

The invention discloses a portable virtual odor generation device. A cup cover lower plate and a cup cover upper plate are sequentially arranged on a cup body storing liquid perfume; one side of the cup cover lower plate is provided with a USB interface; one end of a cotton stick is inserted in a round groove on the bottom surface of the cup body, and the other end is inserted in a water vapor through hole of the cup cover lower plate and is contacted with the lower end surface of an ultrasonic atomizing sheet at the upper end of the water vapor through hole; the ultrasonic atomizing sheet is placed on the cup cover lower plate; a circuit module is connected with the ultrasonic atomizing sheet via a wire; the USB interface jack is connected with the circuit module; the convex ring below the cup cover upper plate fixes the ultrasonic atomizing sheet in a through hole groove at the upper end of the water vapor through hole of the cup cover lower plate; and a water vapor hole is arranged in the cup cover upper plate. the device is connected with the computer by adopting the USB interface, information communication is realized, power is provided for the ultrasonic atomizing sheet, the odor generation device can be connected conveniently, the structure is compact, control is easy, the structure is compact, the size is small, the weight is light, and the device can be used for man machine interaction of virtual and realistic olfactory perception.

The invention discloses an olfactory sensing detection method for flour storage quality, and belongs to the fields of detection and control in the storage process of flour. According to the method, firstly, volatile characteristic gas in the storage process of flour is determined in cooperation with the physical and chemical index fatty acid value of flour through a GC-MS experiment, gas sensitivematerials sensitive to the characteristic gas are screened through an experiment method, a gas sensitive sensor array is manufactured, the reaction time is optimized, and finally response data beforeand after the reaction of the gas sensitive materials and the flour characteristic gas are input into a PSO (particle swarm optimization) support vector machine (SVM) model to judge the storage quality of flour. According to the method, the volatile characteristic gas of the flour in different storage periods is detected through the gas sensitive sensor array to judge the storage quality of the flour, the operation is fast, simple and convenient, the cost is low, and the method has very important practical significance in the aspects of maintaining the market order, ensuring the rights and interests of consumers, ensuring the safety and health of the consumers and the like.