Multimedia-Synchronized Taste Feedback Device With Modular Flavor Delivery
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current immersive experiences, such as 4D/5D movies, do not provide taste feedback, limiting the user's ability to experience the sensory feedback of eating specific foods during scenes involving food consumption.
Innovation Solution
A feedback device synchronized with a media player to provide taste materials corresponding to the content of a multimedia file, using a processor, container, and providing mechanism to release flavors in accordance with labeled paragraphs.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If immersive experience technologies are used to provide sensory feedback, then visual, auditory, and tactile feedback can be delivered, but taste feedback cannot be provided
Solution Approach 1:
The feedback device is segmented into distinct functional modules: a container for storing multiple taste materials, a providing mechanism for delivering taste materials, and a processor for controlling the system. This modular segmentation allows the taste feedback system to be integrated into existing immersive experience devices without requiring complete system redesign.
Solution Approach 2:
The feedback device is designed with multi-functionality to provide various types of taste materials (sweet, sour, bitter, salty, umami) through a single integrated system. The container can store multiple different taste materials, and the providing mechanism can deliver different taste materials based on processor control, making the device universally applicable to various multimedia content scenarios.
2Reliability
If taste materials are provided during multimedia playback, then taste feedback synchronization is achieved, but the device structure becomes more complex
Solution Approach 1:
The processor receives control signals from the media player during multimedia file playback and uses this feedback information to determine when and what taste material to provide. This feedback mechanism ensures that taste feedback is synchronized with the multimedia content, improving reliability of the immersive experience.
Solution Approach 2:
The processor acts as an intermediary between the media player and the providing mechanism. It receives control signals from the media player, processes the timing and type information, and then controls the providing mechanism to deliver the appropriate taste material. This intermediary role simplifies the overall device structure by centralizing the control logic.
3Adaptability or versatility
If multiple taste materials are stored in the container, then various flavors can be provided, but the container volume increases
Solution Approach 1:
Multiple taste materials are stored in a nested arrangement within the container. Different taste materials can be placed in separate compartments or stacked in layers, allowing the container to hold multiple flavors while minimizing overall volume. The providing mechanism can access different nested taste materials based on processor control.
Solution Approach 2:
Instead of storing large quantities of different taste materials, the system uses small samples or concentrated forms of each taste material. The providing mechanism delivers these small portions during multimedia playback, allowing the container to hold diverse flavors without requiring large storage volume.
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AI summary
A feedback device, a feedback system, and a feedback method for taste sense is disclosed, wherein the feedback device includes a processor, a container, and a providing mechanism. Multiple taste materials are stored in the container. When a media player plays a multimedia file to a labeled paragraph, a control signal is sent to the feedback device. After receiving the control signal, the processor controls the providing mechanism to provide a corresponding one of the taste materials for the user to eat. Therefore, the user may obtain taste feedback that is relevant to the label paragraph of the multimedia file through the feedback device.