Patent ID: 7096715
Filing Date: 2006-08-29
Classification: G01N

Abstract:
1. An odor discriminating apparatus, comprising: m pieces of odor sensors having different responsive characteristics, where m is an integer greater than one; a first index calculator for calculating a first index corresponding to a difference in quality between a reference odor and a subject odor, based on results of measurements of the reference odor and the subject odor carried out with the m pieces of the odor sensors; a second index calculator for calculating a second index corresponding to a difference in intensity between the reference odor and the subject odor; based on the results of the aforementioned measurements; and an odor difference demonstrator for demonstrating a degree of difference between the reference odor and the subject odor with respect to odor quality and odor intensity, using the first and second indices or other indices converted from the first and second indices.