Patent ID: 11874259
Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
Field: Measurement (Instruments)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 8:
9. An information management apparatus comprising:
a first receiver that receives added-amount information transmitted by a scent imparting apparatus that adds a scented substance to a plant and indicating an amount of the scented substance added to the plant;
an added-amount information storage unit that stores the added-amount information received by the first receiver;
a second receiver that receives detected-amount information transmitted by a scent detecting apparatus that detects at least one of the scented substance or a metabolite of the scented substance released from the plant, and indicating a detected amount of at least one of the scented substance or the metabolite;
an estimator that estimates a freshness of the plant on the basis of the added amount of the scented substance indicated by the added-amount information stored in the added-amount information storage unit and on the basis of the detected amount of at least one of the scented substance or the metabolite indicated by the detected-amount information received by the second receiver; and
a transmitter that transmits freshness information regarding the freshness estimated by the estimator to the scent detecting apparatus.