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Towards an odor communication system. (English) Zbl 1047.92031

Summary: We propose a setup for an odor communication system. Its different parts are described, and ways to realize them are outlined. Our scheme enables an output device – the whiffer – to release an imitation of an odorant read in by an input device – the sniffer – upon command. The heart of the system is a novel algorithmic scheme that makes the scheme feasible. We are currently at work researching and developing some of the components that constitute the algorithm, and we hope that the description of the overall scheme in this paper will help to get other groups to join in this effort.

MSC:

92C99 Physiological, cellular and medical topics
91E30 Psychophysics and psychophysiology; perception
92C30 Physiology (general)
92-08 Computational methods for problems pertaining to biology
92C55 Biomedical imaging and signal processing
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