FR2841081A1 - Multimedia audiovisual/information artificial odour broadcast/creation having compressed audio/visual digital signal having digital odour representation setting off multimedia odour cartridges disseminated pipes/ventilator - Google Patents

Abstract

The digital odour creating and broadcasting system has compressed binary codes representative of different images and sounds, together with digital odour representation. A unit at the multimedia centre has cartridges with artificial aromas which are passed through a grid ventilator through pipes when the digital word triggers them.

Description

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  OBJECT OF THE INVENTION The present invention relates to a system and a device for: Including binary digit codes, signals composed of binary pulses which will digitally represent associated odors - when burning DVDs, CD Roms and all digital video media, audio and data processing, - the recording of digital television broadcasts, - the creation of multimedia files and files transmitted by computer means, o. transmit eVou fire these binary codes during: - DVD playback and all other eVou media mentioned above - game on console and all other computer and digital media eVou - the sequence of broadcasts, advertising screens, programs, films, documentaries, reports , entertainment broadcasts, live or delayed sports broadcasts, clips, musical songs, songs or instrumental, broadcast by television channels, radio channels, eVou - eVou consultation and transfer via Internet and Intra net servers, as well as during videoconferences To reproduce and disseminate these same smells on the basis of coded information received in the form of sequences of numbers in binary language, during: - reading in DVD players, VCRs, CD players, all digital sound players and digital; - starting consultation and connection of personal microcomputers and computer stations, - reception in and from TV, radio tuners, hi-fi systems; game consoles, projection for public and private cinematographic sessions and sound and light entertainment, shows, conferences; all devices equipped with digital decoders internally or externally

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  State of the prior art bringing out the technical problem posed Multimedia is the technique which makes it possible to bring together on the same support computer programs and audiovisual means - video, sounds, images and texts - for fire, unwinding and broadcasting them. interactively and at the same time.

  Multimedia does not include the olfactory dimension.

  Since 1994 digital broadcasts retransmit television programs, electronic images, in the form of digit codes, which allow a large number of mathematical operations to be carried out. This technique thus makes it possible to represent the level of brightness of an image point by a number (between O for black and 255 for bright white), it is so for colors (0 no color, 255 full chrominance ). This series of binary digits, characterizing an image point, commonly called "word" contains the position of the

  dot in the image, its "address" and its intensity in luminance or chrominance.

  sThree wind words necessary to describe a point in color: one for its

  luminance and two for its chrominance.

  In numeric ['image is a matrix and all its points are listed by addresses, the operator can thus intervene on any point of [' image in

  any order, any time, for any transformation.

  o With signal compression, a digital program occupies eight times less space on the air than an analog program, hence the large number of channels and telematic services offered by the channels retransmitted by the

cable and satellite.

  In the same way digital multimedia supports recorded evou grave, DVD, CD 2sRom, etc ... integrate information relating to the animated images or not, to the sound and the text. Digital television and these media do not integrate

olfactory dimension.

  The majority of perfumes and aromas involved in the manufacture of perfumes, household products and industrial foods today have odors artificially soreconstituted and reproduced on the basis of computer-assisted analysis of the molecules that compose them. These perfumes and aromas can be packaged

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  in concentrated form in very small containers. Binary codes representative of the constituent elements of these perfumes exist in

analysis programs.

  In inkjet printers, cartridges containing ink are placed on the printing parties, information relating to the texts and images to be printed is sent in the form of sequences of binary digits through a bar or electronic table containing a program which will determine the moment and the quantities of ink which will be ejected to print the text with all the details defined at the time of entry. This information passes through a flat cable, and through copper contacts integrated into the cartridges, cause the exit of tiny drops of ink which cross an electrostatic field then wind

  projected through a grid onto the paper.

  This system is not used for the diffusion of odors.

Description of the device

  The invention relates to the following system and device: At the time of recording and of the editing and of the engraving in digital control, odors are associated according to the sequences with the different films, games, broadcasts, programs, advertising screens, clips, musical pieces etc. .. A specific computer program for recording translates the orative commands to the odors chosen in control in sequences of binary digits which will be associated with the binary codes representative of the points of the images and of the sound of the

  films, games, program broadcasts, advertising screens and tracks.

  These series of binary digits representing the information relating to the different programmed odors, will be engraved, emitted or transmitted transmitted

  2transferees eVou streets, and decoded.

  A reception computer program printed on a microprocessor located on an electronic bar or board, will translate these binary signals into commands which will pass through a flat cable, and through copper contacts integrated in the cartridges constituting perfume kits, will trigger the output of somnuscules perfume drops. These will cross an electrostatic field and will be projected through a grid on a central membrane which will soak it and behind which will be placed a micro-fan which will activate and send the

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  perfume thus reconstituted through two conduits which will leave towards the dimensions of the apparatus and will recreate on the place of viewing, projection, listening, play, consultation, the smells associated with the scenes, texts and musical songs sung

or statements.

  sBreve presentation of Figures 1, 2 and 3 Figures 1, 2 and 3 relate to the part of the device relating to the creation and dissemination of odors which will receive these commands through a flat cable (1), will transmit them through contacts integrated brass (2), cartridges (3) or Perfume Kit (4) thus triggering the output of tiny drops of Perfume which will pass through an electrostatic screen and will then be projected through a grid and perfume delivery pipes (3A) onto a central membrane (5) which will soak it and behind which will be placed a micro-fan (6) which will be triggered and will send the perfume thus reconstituted through two conduits (7) which will leave towards the sides of the device.

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  According to the particular embodiments: the computer program for recording binary codes representative of odors will be "printed" on an external or internal processor for old devices or integrated into new digital devices for recording, engraving and transmission of and sound, as well as microcomputers and

multimedia computer servers.

  Binary codes representative of odors will be compressed in the same way as binary codes representative of different points of the image and sound; Signals composed of binary codes representative of odors will be transmitted in the same way as signals relating to image and sound; o. Signals composed of binary codes representative of odors will be decoded by digital decoders which decode the signals relating to image and sound; The computer program for reading binary codes representative of odors will be "printed" on an external or internal processor for old devices or integrated with new devices for reading, receiving and projecting image and sound,

  as well as microcomputers and multimedia computer servers.

  the device for creating and diffusing odors will essentially take up the constitutive principles of the inkjet printer, flat connection cable (1), multiple housings for the parties of cartridge and cartridges (3) of perfumes for the first embodiment or housing for a Perfume Kit (4), for the second

mode of realization.

  Ies kits (4), and perfume cartridges (3) will be produced in two main forms: - a standard Perfume Kit which will include the concentrates allowing the reconstitution

  of the most popular natural scents.

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  - specific variants will also be produced, eVou kits with "romance", "nature", "gourmand", "littoral", romance, "interiors", "JT", "farm and countryside" cartridges,

  "surf '," football stadium "," tennis "," golf "," pub "...

  The kits (4), like the cartridges (3) can be changed quickly by freeing them up by simple clicks and will be housed on the side of the devices including the device or on the external device for old devices, in both cases this location will facilitate a quick change of the kits (4), and of the cartridges (3) of perfume Mode of operation of the function recording, creation and diffusion of odors: oReaders, emitters7 eVou servers will send - during the reading eVou through the transfer of files and computer files, eVou the sequence of emissions screens advertising, programs, films, documentaries, reports, entertainment programs, musical pieces, songs or instrumental, ... - signals consisting of binary codes intended for the device of creation and dissemination odors will be found in DVD players, TVs, radio tuners, hi-fi systems; VCRs, CD players, all digital sound players; personal computers and computer stations, game consoles, projectors for public and private cinematographic sessions and sound and light entertainment, shows, conferences; all devices equipped with digital decoders internally or externally - and these signals will trigger the emission of the various concentrates and reconstituted perfumes stored in the cartridges eVou Kit Perfumes according to

  images eVou the audio tape read by the different media mentioned above.

  The mixture thus obtained will reproduce or approximate as much as possible the preponderant perfume linked to the scene viewed (perfume of the actress or eau de toilette of 2sl'actor, odors of spices and aromas of the different dishes for cooking, flowers on a balcony or scents from the garden or meadow, home fragrances, romantic scenes ...); or in the text spoken, sung or said, for example: smell of hot sun on long hair; coffee, jasmine, hotel room and woman's scent, bitumen, sea, nun's moist

aofroides, creepy bars, ...

  The mixing will be done according to the following process:

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  As soon as the device for creating and diffusing odors starts up,

  this will trigger the sending of the perfume concentrates found in the cartridges (3) to a central membrane (5) which will soak it and behind which will be placed a micro-fan (6) which will trigger and send the smell to through two conduits (7) squi will leave towards the dimensions of the device, and all this according to the power programmed by the transmitter support, chain, server, DVD ... eVou on intervention of the user through his remote control which will be able adjust the power of the emitter emitted, or even start or stop the function relating to the creation and dissemination of odors. o On each support EVo at the start of each broadcast, the transmitter will indicate the most appropriate kit and the viewer or listener will be able to consult this information by a touch by displaying it at the teas of the screen during the program if they have missed the start or by leafing through the program magazines (TV for example) which will indicate them. sThe manner in which the invention is susceptible of industrial application Information relating to the binary codes representative of odors - which already exist as such in the manufacturers and inventors of perfumes - will be recorded and ordered in a program similar to the computer programs of multimedia recording, word processing or digital television. This data will for example be integrated into DVDs and read by a specific computer reading program similar to that which governs printing on inkjet printers and which reproduces the colors and the bold as we enter at the time of putting in the form of our text. This program which will be integrated with the DVD player (printed on an internal or external processor) will transform these signals into commands which will trigger a device for creating and diffusing odors, a relatively flat device, similar in operation to a jet printer. ink whose carriage will or will not be mobile, which will release the different perfume concentrates found in the cartridges like the inks of different colors are stored in the

  different tanks of the same cartridge or in different cartridges.

  We will have added to this device for creating and diffusing odors from the ducts

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  connecting the different cartridges to a central membrane (carbon or felt)

  intended to be soaked with perfume concentrates which will be injected. A mic-

  fan will then transform them into room odors which will spread through conduits giving on the dimensions of the device, and all this according to the programming sau at the time of recording and according to the decision of the user to put in

  whether or not the associated odor diffusion function works.

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Claims (8)

claims   1. Device for the digital representation of all types of odors by representative binary codes which are compressed in the same way as binary codes representative of different points of the image and sound, scaracterized in that it comprises: - a decoding unit for digital information relating to the odor to be recreated; - a unit comprising artificial aroma cartridges - grids - odes for sending perfumes - a membrane - a fan   - two odor diffusing conduits.   2. Device according to claim 1 characterized in that the grids are located ssur the conduits parFums sending near the orifices of the aroma cartridges.   3. Device according to claims 1 and 2 characterized in that the conduits   sending perfumes to a central membrane.   4. Device according to claims 1 and 3 characterized in that the fan   is located on the side of the central membrane.   5. Device according to claims 1 and 4 characterized in that the two   wind diffuser ducts located opposite the fan, on the opposite side of the membrane.   6. Kit perfumes for the device according to claims 1 and 2 characterized in that   squtil contains aroma concentrates allowing the reconstitution of natural scents. 2341 081   7. Cartridges for the device according to claims 1 and 2 characterized in   what they contain concentrations of ardmes allowing the reconstitution natural scents.   8. diffusion method implemented in the device according to claim 1 scaracterise in that it comprises the following steps: decoding binary codes representative of all types of odors, translation of these binary signals into commands which trigger the release of drops of d '' aromas and perfumes - projection of these drops of ardmes and perfumes on a central membrane which soaks up the mixture thus constitutes