| US 7,526,500 B2 | ||
| Perfume information processing device, perfume information processing system, and perfume conversion table generating method | ||
| Yuichi Bannai, Koganei (Japan); Keiichi Murai, Tokyo (Japan); Kenichi Okada, Tokyo (Japan); and Shutaro Aiba, Tokyo (Japan) | ||
| Assigned to Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo (Japan) | ||
| Filed on May 04, 2005, as Appl. No. 11/120,949. | ||
| Claims priority of application No. 2004-141736 (JP), filed on May 12, 2004. | ||
| Prior Publication US 2005/0278224 A1, Dec. 15, 2005 | ||
| Int. Cl. G06F 7/00 (2006.01); G01N 33/00 (2006.01); C11D 3/50 (2006.01) | ||
| U.S. Cl. 707—102 [422/83; 510/101] | 17 Claims |
| 1. A perfume information processing device connected to a perfume emitting device that performs perfume emission by emitting
a stored perfume, comprising:
information receiving means for receiving, from the perfume emitting device, stored perfume information representing a plurality
of perfumes stored in the perfume emitting device and emission perfume information representing a perfume that should be emitted
at the perfume emitting device;
judgment means for judging whether a perfume corresponding to the emission perfume information representing the perfume that
should be emitted is contained among the stored perfumes by referring to correspondences between perfume information and the
perfumes;
first selection means for selecting, when said judgment means judges that the perfume corresponding to the emission perfume
information is contained among the stored perfumes, at least one perfume corresponding to the received emission perfume information
from among the perfumes represented by the received stored perfume information by referring to correspondences between emission
perfume information and perfumes to be emitted;
second selection means for selecting, when said judgment means judges that the perfume corresponding to the emission perfume
information is not contained among the stored perfumes, a perfume having a highest point with respect to the emission perfume
information from among the stored perfumes by referring to a point of each stored perfume with respect to the emission perfume
information;
perfume conversion table generating means for generating a perfume conversion table for converting the emission perfume information
into perfume specifying information including information representing the at least one perfume selected by said first and
second selection means; and
perfume conversion table transmitting means for transmitting the perfume conversion table to the perfume emitting device.
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