Patent ID: 11874260
Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
Field: Measurement (Instruments)
Classification: CPC G  A  C | IPC G

Claim 0:
1. An information providing method for an information providing system including a scent imparting apparatus, a scent detecting apparatus, and an information management apparatus, the information providing method comprising:
adding, by the scent imparting apparatus, a scented substance to a plant;
transmitting, by the scent imparting apparatus to the information management apparatus, product information that includes added-substance information indicating a first substance that is the scented substance and production information regarding the plant;
receiving, by the information management apparatus, the product information;
storing, by the information management apparatus, the product information in a production information storage unit;
detecting, by the scent detecting apparatus, a second substance that is at least one of a scented substance or a metabolite of the scented substance released from a target plant that is the plant or another plant;
transmitting, by the scent detecting apparatus to the information management apparatus, detected-substance information indicating the second substance;
receiving, by the information management apparatus, the detected-substance information;
transmitting, when the second substance indicated by the received detected-substance information is the same as the first substance indicated by the added-substance information included in the product information stored in the production information storage unit or is the same as a metabolite of the first substance, by the information management apparatus to the scent detecting apparatus, the production information included in the product information stored in the production information storage unit;
receiving, by the scent detecting apparatus, the production information from the information management apparatus; and
presenting, by the scent detecting apparatus, the received production information.