Scent dispenser and automatic dispense of scent in an immersive environment
AssigneeElevated Perceptions LLC
InventorDean Finnegan
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Abstract
A device and system automatically release scents in an immersive environment. When an audio signal includes a sound associated with an event correlated to one of the scents, the device releases the scent to provide the improved immersive experience with the sense of smell included in the scene. The occurrence of an event may be predicted by an artificial intelligence engine. The artificial intelligence engine may determine when an event associated with a scent to be dispensed is going to occur so that the timing of the dispense is more accurate and correlated with the timing of the action in the audio signal.
Claims20
A method for automatically dispensing a scent into an environment, comprising:
- continuously detecting by a sensor or a computer processor, an audio signal in the environment;
- forwarding data points in the audio signal to an artificial intelligence engine;
- identifying, by the artificial intelligence engine, one or more precursors and patterns from the audio signal, associated with an event;
- predicting by the artificial intelligence engine, an occurrence of the event based on the precursors and patterns identified in the audio signal;
- forwarding the prediction to a computing device or a controller communicatively coupled to a scent dispenser;
- identifying, by the computing device, a scent correlated to the event;
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- operating by the computing device or the controller, a dispense of the identified scent by the scent dispenser into the environment in association with a predicted occurrence of the event;
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- determining by the computing device or controller, whether a frequency of dispense of the identified scent exceeds a threshold value within a window of time.
A computer program product for automatically dispensing a scent into an environment, the computer program product comprising:
- one or more non-transitory computer readable storage media, and program instructions collectively stored on the one or more computer readable storage media, the program instructions comprising:
- continuously detecting by a sensor or a computer processor, an audio signal in the environment;
- forwarding data points in the audio signal to an artificial intelligence engine;
- identifying, by the artificial intelligence engine, one or more precursors and patterns from the audio signal, associated with an event;
- predicting by the artificial intelligence engine, an occurrence of the event based on the precursors and patterns identified in the audio signal;
- forwarding the prediction to a computing device or a controller communicatively coupled to a scent dispenser;
- identifying, by the computing device, a scent correlated to the event;
- operating by the computing device or the controller, a dispense of the identified scent by the scent dispenser into the environment in association with a predicted occurrence of the event and
- determining by the computing device or controller, whether a frequency of dispense of the identified scent exceeds a threshold value within a window of time.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.