Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation

Takafumi Mukouchi

Arinobu Niijima

Takashi Sato

Toki Takeda

Motohiro Makiguchi

Disclosed is a food texture presentation apparatus including a synthesizer that acquires, with reference of a recipe of a food product selected, audio signals of mastication sounds of ingredients contained in the food product from a database and synthesizes the acquired audio signals of the ingredients into an audio signal of a food texture to be presented, and a presentation unit that uses the synthesized audio signal to present the food texture of the food product.

Food texture presentation device, food texture presentation method and food texture presentation program

A food texture presentation apparatus of the present embodiment includes a force stimulation presentation unit, a vibration stimulation presentation unit, and a temperature stimulation presentation unit that present different kinds of haptic stimuli in the oral cavity, a selection unit that selects a haptic stimulus to be presented, according to the food texture, and a force stimulation controller, a vibration stimulation controller, and a temperature stimulation controller that control respectively the force stimulation presentation unit, the vibration stimulation presentation unit, and the temperature stimulation presentation unit that present the selected haptic stimulus.

Texture presentation device, texture presentation method, and program

A tactile stimulation presentation deviceincludes a measurement unitconfigured to measure a first physical quantity with respect to a tactile sensation applied to a first region of a human body, a control unitconfigured to convert the first physical quantity into a second physical quantity of a different type from the first physical quantity, and a presentation unitconfigured to apply the second physical quantity to a second region different from the first region.

Tactile stimulus presentation apparatus and method

A temperature stimulus presentation device includes a presentation unit that generates heat at a predetermined temperature, and a control unit that changes an area of the presentation unit depending on whether or not a temperature stimulus is presented.

Temperature stimulus presentation apparatus and method

A thermal stimulus presentation devicefor presenting a thermal stimulus in the mouth includes a presentation unitthat presents the thermal stimulus in the mouth, a receiving unitthat receives notification information for notifying a user, and a control unitthat controls the thermal stimulus of the presentation unit, upon the notification information being received, the presentation unitpresenting the thermal stimulus in the mouth in accordance with the control of the control unit

Temperature stimulus presentation device and temperature stimulus presentation method

A stimulus presentation devicethat stimulates a user with air from a plurality of air gunsarranged so as to surround the user includes a control unitthat determines respective ejection times at which a plurality of air streams are to be ejected at given time intervals which allow the user to perceive an apparent motion as well as respective ejection azimuth directions in which the plurality of air streams are to be ejected and causes the air streams to be sequentially ejected from the respective air gunsdisposed in the individual ejection azimuth directions at the individual ejection times and an adjustment unit that determines a plurality of different body sites on a body of the user to which the plurality of air streams are to be applied and adjusts respective ejection angles of the individual air gunssuch that respective muzzles of the air gunsare pointed at the plurality of body sites.

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Musashino, Japan

Takafumi Mukouchi