Virtual vision system with actual flavor by olfactory display

Kunio Sakamoto; Fumihiro Kanazawa

doi:10.1117/12.869781

3 November 2010 Virtual vision system with actual flavor by olfactory display

Kunio Sakamoto, Fumihiro Kanazawa

Proceedings Volume 7850, Optoelectronic Imaging and Multimedia Technology; 78501I (2010) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.869781
Event: Photonics Asia 2010, 2010, Beijing, China

Abstract

The authors have researched multimedia system and support system for nursing studies on and practices of reminiscence therapy and life review therapy. The concept of the life review is presented by Butler in 1963. The process of thinking back on one's life and communicating about one's life to another person is called life review. There is a famous episode concerning the memory. It is called as Proustian effects. This effect is mentioned on the Proust's novel as an episode that a story teller reminds his old memory when he dipped a madeleine in tea. So many scientists research why smells trigger the memory. The authors pay attention to the relation between smells and memory although the reason is not evident yet. Then we have tried to add an olfactory display to the multimedia system so that the smells become a trigger of reminding buried memories. An olfactory display is a device that delivers smells to the nose. It provides us with special effects, for example to emit smell as if you were there or to give a trigger for reminding us of memories. The authors have developed a tabletop display system connected with the olfactory display. For delivering a flavor to user's nose, the system needs to recognition and measure positions of user's face and nose. In this paper, the authors describe an olfactory display which enables to detect the nose position for an effective delivery.

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Kunio Sakamoto and Fumihiro Kanazawa "Virtual vision system with actual flavor by olfactory display", Proc. SPIE 7850, Optoelectronic Imaging and Multimedia Technology, 78501I (3 November 2010); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.869781

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