Apparatus for detecting chemical substances
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1. An apparatus comprising:
- a detection unit acquiring chemical substance-related information relating to a chemical substance included in a fluid at a sampling point using a spectrometric sensor;
a communication unit that communicates wirelessly or via wires with an outside device;
a local memory storing a threat detection library including a specifying pattern generated when a specified chemical substance that is a cause of a threat was detected by the spectrometric sensor; and
a processor that includes a matching process and an outputting process and executes, in parallel or according to time division, the matching process and the outputting process,wherein the matching process routinely compares chemical substance-related information obtained by the detection unit and a specifying pattern for monitoring purposes included in the threat detection library, and outputs match information when the obtained chemical substance-related information and the specifying pattern for monitoring purposes match, andwherein the outputting process determines that an event relating to an odor has occurred based on a change in a chemical constituent or a change in concentration of detected chemical substances included in the obtained chemical substance-related information and outputs an occurrence of an event and an occurrence cause of the event, the outputting process including transferring, via the communication unit, the chemical substance-related information to the outside device and obtaining the occurrence cause of the event that includes chemical substances estimated from the chemical substance-related information and/or a cause of outputting of the estimated chemical substances.
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Abstract
An olfactory system (300) capable of detecting a threat includes: a detection unit (100) including an IMS sensor (110) that outputs IMS data (115) relating to chemical substances included in fluid at a sampling point; a local memory (41) storing a library (49) including a specifying pattern (48) generated when a specified chemical substance was detected by the IMS sensor (110); and a matching unit (42) that routinely compares and matches the IMS data (115) and the specifying pattern (48) for monitoring purposes included in the library (49).
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1. An apparatus comprising:
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a detection unit acquiring chemical substance-related information relating to a chemical substance included in a fluid at a sampling point using a spectrometric sensor; a communication unit that communicates wirelessly or via wires with an outside device; a local memory storing a threat detection library including a specifying pattern generated when a specified chemical substance that is a cause of a threat was detected by the spectrometric sensor; and a processor that includes a matching process and an outputting process and executes, in parallel or according to time division, the matching process and the outputting process, wherein the matching process routinely compares chemical substance-related information obtained by the detection unit and a specifying pattern for monitoring purposes included in the threat detection library, and outputs match information when the obtained chemical substance-related information and the specifying pattern for monitoring purposes match, and wherein the outputting process determines that an event relating to an odor has occurred based on a change in a chemical constituent or a change in concentration of detected chemical substances included in the obtained chemical substance-related information and outputs an occurrence of an event and an occurrence cause of the event, the outputting process including transferring, via the communication unit, the chemical substance-related information to the outside device and obtaining the occurrence cause of the event that includes chemical substances estimated from the chemical substance-related information and/or a cause of outputting of the estimated chemical substances. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 9, 10)
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5. A method that controls an apparatus including:
- a detection unit detecting chemical substance-related information relating to a chemical substance included in a fluid at a sampling point using an ion mobility sensor;
a communication unit that communicates wirelessly or via wires with an outside device;
a local memory storing a threat detection library including a specifying pattern generated when a specified chemical substance that is a cause of a threat was detected by a spectrometric sensor; and
a processor,the processor executing;
a matching process which routinely compares chemical substance-related information obtained by the detection unit and a specifying pattern for monitoring purposes included in the threat detection library and outputs match information when the obtained chemical substance-related information and the specifying pattern for monitoring purposes match; andin parallel or according to time division with the matching process, a process that determines that an event relating to an odor has occurred based on a change in a chemical constituent or a change in concentration of detected chemical substances included in the obtained chemical substance-related information, and outputs an occurrence of an event and an occurrence cause of the event, the process including transferring, via the communication unit, the chemical substance-related information to the outside device and obtaining the occurrence cause of the event including chemical substances estimated from the chemical substance-related information and/or a cause of outputting of the estimated chemical substances. - View Dependent Claims (6, 7)
- a detection unit detecting chemical substance-related information relating to a chemical substance included in a fluid at a sampling point using an ion mobility sensor;
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8. A nontransitory computer readable medium encoded with a program executed by an apparatus including:
- a detection unit detecting chemical substance-related information relating to a chemical substance included in a fluid at a sampling point using a spectrometric sensor;
a communication unit that communicates wirelessly or via wires with an outside device;
a local memory storing a threat detection library including a specifying pattern generated when a specified chemical substance that is a cause of a threat was detected by the spectrometric sensor; and
a processor,the program comprising instructions that have the processor execute;
a matching process which routinely compares chemical substance-related information obtained by the detection unit and a specifying pattern for monitoring purposes included in the threat detection library and outputs match information when the obtained chemical substance-related information and the specifying pattern for monitoring purposes match; and
,in parallel or according to time division with the matching process, a process that determines that an event relating to an odor has occurred based on a change in a chemical constituent or a change in concentration of detected chemical substances included in the obtained chemical substance-related information, and outputs an occurrence of an event and an occurrence cause of the event, the process including transferring, via the communication unit, the chemical substance-related information to the outside device and obtaining the occurrence cause of the event including chemical substances estimated from the chemical substance-related information and/or a cause of outputting of the estimated chemical substances.
- a detection unit detecting chemical substance-related information relating to a chemical substance included in a fluid at a sampling point using a spectrometric sensor;
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