Mood-Based Scent Diffusion With Synchronized Audio and Lighting
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing scent dispensing solutions lack the ability to dynamically adjust both audio and scent dispersion to automatically accompany or alter a user's mood, requiring manual user intervention for setting adjustments.
Innovation Solution
A fragrance management system that includes an interface to receive requests for scenting experiences, determining scent identities, and controlling lighting and audio devices based on scent settings, using a controller to synchronize scent dispensation, lighting, and audio output to create a desired mood.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Extent of automation
If manual adjustment of scent, lighting, and audio settings is used, then users can control their mood experience, but the system lacks automation and requires continuous user intervention
Solution Approach 1:
The system automatically detects user mood through biometric sensors (heart rate, skin conductance, temperature) and autonomously adjusts scent diffusion, lighting, and audio settings without requiring manual user input. The controller processes sensor data and modifies environmental parameters based on detected mood states, enabling the system to serve itself.
Solution Approach 2:
The system continuously monitors user biometric data through sensors and uses this feedback to dynamically adjust the mood experience. The controller receives real-time physiological data, analyzes mood changes, and automatically modifies scent, light, and audio outputs to create a closed-loop control system that adapts to user needs.
2Adaptability or versatility
If dynamic adjustment of multiple parameters (scent, lighting, audio) is implemented, then the mood experience is enhanced, but the system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The controller serves multiple functions by integrating mood detection, parameter analysis, and control of diverse devices (scent diffuser, lighting system, audio equipment) into a single centralized unit. This multi-functional approach allows the system to handle various mood scenarios using a unified control architecture, reducing overall system complexity despite the variety of controlled parameters.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent combines scent diffusion control, lighting adjustment, and audio playback into a single integrated mood experience managed by one controller. By merging these previously separate control functions into a unified system, the patent reduces the complexity of managing multiple independent devices while enhancing the coherence and adaptability of the overall mood experience.
3Measurement precision
If biometric sensors are used to detect user mood, then automatic mood detection is achieved, but the device complexity and cost increase
Solution Approach 1:
The mood detection function is divided into separate biometric sensor modules (heart rate sensor, skin conductance sensor, temperature sensor) that can independently measure different physiological parameters. Each sensor segment focuses on a specific aspect of mood detection, improving overall measurement precision while allowing modular integration that manages system complexity through functional decomposition.
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AI summary
A fragrance management system may include an interface configured to receive a request (scheduled/on-demand) to activate a scenting experience (e.g., an event, routine, or mood) include a lighting setting and an audio setting, and a controller configured to determine a scent identity as part of the scenting experience, the scent identity being associated with a scent container positioned within a fragrance management apparatus, instructing a lighting device to activate based on the lighting setting, instructing an audio device to activate based on the audio setting, and instructing the fragrance management apparatus to output a scent from the scent container based on the scenting experience.