Visualizing Sensory Descriptions for Odor and Flavor Objects
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Solution Overview
Problem
People find it difficult to accurately describe smells and tastes due to a lack of vocabulary and recognition of corresponding descriptions.
Innovation Solution
An information processing device that specifies the location of an object stimulating a user's sense of smell or taste and displays corresponding verbal descriptions, with customizable appearances based on relationships, preferences, and attributes, allowing users to visually understand the connection between the object and its description.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Loss of information
If visual display of smell/taste descriptions is implemented, then understanding of sensory descriptions is improved, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a display device as an intermediary between the object (stimulating smell/taste) and the user's understanding. The display device visually presents description words and their relationships, mediating the communication of sensory information without requiring the user to directly articulate or mentally organize the complex sensory data themselves.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent replaces the mechanical/mental process of manually describing and organizing sensory experiences with an automated information processing system. The system automatically detects, processes, and displays smell/taste descriptions and their relationships, substituting complex mental vocabulary work with automated computational processing and visual presentation.
2Measurement precision
If detailed descriptions are provided for all objects, then accuracy of sensory communication is improved, but information processing time increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies local quality by providing different levels or types of description information for different objects or different aspects of the same object. The system can selectively display relevant description words based on the specific object being examined, the user's preferences, or the context, rather than uniformly displaying all possible descriptions for every object.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent implements preliminary action by pre-processing and organizing description information in advance. The system maintains databases of description words, their attributes, and relationships, so that when an object is examined, the relevant information is already prepared and can be quickly retrieved and displayed without requiring extensive real-time processing.
3Loss of information
If multiple description attributes are displayed, then completeness of sensory information is improved, but ease of operation decreases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments the comprehensive sensory information into distinct, organized categories or groups of description words. By dividing the information into manageable segments with different visual appearances or organizational structures, the system presents complete sensory data in a way that is easier for users to navigate and understand, rather than displaying all information in a single undifferentiated mass.
Data Source
AI summary
A via visual representation a relationship between a smell or a taste of an object and a verbal description of the smell or taste, a display control unit controls a projector to display, in a display area including to a position of a sample, specified by the position specifying unit, one or more descriptions relating to the sense of smell or taste stimulated by the sample. Here, display control unit displays the descriptions by an appearance corresponding to the sample specified by the sample specifying unit.