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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 29, 2024
Filed:
Apr. 24, 2020
Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Arinobu Niijima, Musashino, JP;
Toki Takeda, Musashino, JP;
Takafumi Mukouchi, Musashino, JP;
Takashi Sato, Musashino, JP;
Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
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.