ES2544001B1 - MULTISENSORY PRODUCT WITH ONE OR MORE COLORED SURFACES CARRIED BY FRAGRANCES AND METHOD FOR THE IDENTIFICATION OF CHROMATIC INFORMATION FOR PERSONS WITH VISUAL DEFICIENCIES - Google Patents

Abstract

Multisensory product with one or more colored fragrance-bearing surfaces and method for identifying chromatic information for people with visual impairments. # The present invention concerns the fields of printed products, the controlled release of fragrances, and the transmission of chromatic information to people with visual impairments, through a multisensory product that integrates encapsulated fragrances releasable by contact, pressure or rubbing, said fragrances being associated with colored regions. In this way, the same fragrance is associated with the same color, so that a user, for example with visual impairments, can obtain information regarding the different colors printed olfactoryly.

Description

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DESCRIPTION

MULTISENSORY PRODUCT WITH ONE OR MORE COLORED SURFACES CARRIED BY FRAGRANCES AND METHOD FOR THE IDENTIFICATION OF CHROMATIC INFORMATION FOR PERSONS WITH VISUAL DEFICIENCIES

Technical field

The present invention concerns a multisensory, laminar or three-dimensional product applicable to printed materials, canvases and fabrics in a non-limiting manner. The proposed multisensory product comprises one or more colored surfaces

Fragrance carriers, intended for the transmission of chromatic information to people through smell, for example to people with visual impairments including blind or for people without vision problems, for example in circumstances of poor lighting, or simply to complete their sensory experience.

A multisensory product is provided that integrates encapsulated fragrances releasable by contact, pressure or rubbing, said fragrances being associated with regions or zones differentiated by color. According to the invention, each color or zone homogeneously colored, is associated with a fragrance of its own, thus achieving that a user with visual impairments can identify different colored areas of the multisensory product by the sense of smell.

The invention also relates to a method for a person with visual impairment.

or blind can identify differentiated color regions of a multisensory product.

State of the art The use of fragrances in printed products is known, for example document DE 9420853, in which a book is described whose pages give off odor when opened, citing as a preferred embodiment the mixture of the fragrance with the ink of impression. This background contemplates only a constant release fragrance, and uses a perimeter seal of each scented page to prevent the fragrance from being released and spreading while the page is closed. This embodiment has multiple disadvantages, since each page has only one smell, since being the fragrance of constant release, if different fragrances were used on the same page they would all be released

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simultaneously and they would be mixed making them indistinguishable, and therefore it is impossible to transmit differentiated olfactory information referring to parts of the same page or the use of such fragrances to identify colored areas. In addition, despite the perimeter seal of its pages, the book would constantly smell, and the fragrances would weaken even without being used.

On the other hand, releasable fragrances by contact, pressure or rubbing are known for example by WO 2007070082, which describes nanoparticles suitable for containing and encapsulating substances, preventing their release, said nanoparticles being configured so that when touched, pressed or rubbed lose their containment capacity and release the contained substance. In this document it is cited as a possibility of realization, that the substance contained is a fragrance.

It is also known, by WO 2005058606A1, a book whose pages are impregnated with a fragrance encapsulated in nanoparticles, said fragrance being releasable by rubbing. In this case, it is only contemplated the inclusion of a single fragrance per page, since the proposed use is that of tear-off sheets that can be rubbed to perform scented massages. The printing of the pages with motifs or phrases is also contemplated, but without relating the printed motifs or differentiated areas of the page with the fragrance.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION The present invention concerns a multisensory product with one or more colored fragrance-bearing surfaces, and a method for the identification of chromatic information by persons with visual impairments, said product having

multisensory of at least one colorizable support, and of colored shapes on said colorizable support, said support containing releasable fragrances. Such fragrances are encapsulated, and are releasable, at least in part, as a result.

of a contact, pressure or rub, and said colored support has at least a first and second delimited zones, differentiated from each other, each of which includes a colored part of a homogeneous color or a similar range of colors that provides The aforementioned differentiation. In addition, said colored and differentiated parts, of a homogeneous color or of a range of similar colors, of said first and second delimited zones, incorporate respective and different encapsulated fragrances, so that each color or zone of homogeneous color is associated with a own fragrance, which allows its identification by the characteristic smell, being said delimited area touched,

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Pressed or rubbed. This configuration allows the same colored support to incorporate different encapsulated fragrances occupying different zones, but that these fragrances are not released until the user touches, presses or rubs at least a part of at least one of the delimited zones, thus avoiding the continuous release of fragrances, their mixture

or its premature dissipation, allowing the user to release the fragrances of the different delimited areas at selected times in a controlled manner, thus being able to identify said delimited areas with each other by means of the fragrance released.

In order to encapsulate the fragrance in a releasable way by contact, pressure or friction, the use of nanocapsules is proposed, and to achieve a simple and economical integration of said fragrances in the colorizable support, and in correspondence with the colored shapes of the delimited areas , it is proposed, in a non-limiting manner, the mixing of said nanoparticles impregnated with the coloring product, so that when coloring a certain color, a certain fragrance is applied simultaneously.

Said dye product can be for example ink, paint, dye, dye, food dye, depending on the color support or the use given to the multisensory product.

This characteristic of the proposed multisensory product allows a different fragrance to be assigned to each color, so that using said multisensory product a method can be implemented for the identification of chromatic information by, for example, people with visual impairments including blind people, or for people without vision problems, for example in circumstances of poor lighting, or simply to complete their sensory experience. So, a person with total or partial blindness,

or a person suffering from achromatopsia, color blindness, or another disease or injury that prevents the correct perception of colors, can perceive information regarding the different colors arranged on a colored support, and identify them through the different fragrances released by touching the different areas of said cited support, colored with said colors.

A similar color or range of colors is understood as a fraction of the visible spectrum that can be referred to with the same name, for example red, green, blue, purple, yellow, orange, brown, violet, etc. They can also be considered as colors

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subgroups of the previous ones, such as green grass, bottle green, green

pistachio, etc. White, black and gray, or their subgroups, are also considered colors, although pure black is actually the absence of visible light.

As a non-limiting example, a range of six basic colors can be established, defined according to their wavelength as follows: Violet = 380 to 450 nm Blue = 45050495nm Green = 495 to 570 nm Yellow = 570 to 590 nm Orange = 590 to 620 nm

Red = de620a750nm Similarly, a fragrance or range of similar fragrances is considered to be all those perceivable fragrances that can be denominated with the same name, such as the smell of rose, jasmine, oak, grass, lavender, a Apple, orange, lemon, whether fragrances obtained directly from the products that give them their name, such as synthetic fragrances that try to reproduce these natural fragrances or generate other mixed odors.

Preferably, the same fragrance will always be assigned to the same color, thus generating a code of correspondences that a person, with or without visual impairments, can learn and differentiate, reproducing in some way and artificially a synesthesia in which certain colors are associated with certain odors. By way of non-limiting example, the following correlations are proposed:

COLOR FRAGRANCE Violet - grove, stem, leaves, flowers, fruits, or tubers of plants of the family of violets or lavenders. Blue -calone or trunk, stem, leaves, flowers, fruits, or tubers of plants of the family of violets or lavenders, or algae, fish or salt. Green - brown, stem, leaves, flowers, fruits, or tubers of plants of the mint family, basil, herb, bay leaf, rosemary, thyme, geranium,

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Eucalyptus, cypress, pistachio, lettuce, cabbage, pea, artichoke, bean, zucchini or cucumber.

Yellow

- trunk, stem, leaves, flowers, fruits, or tubers of plants of the vanilla family, tea, eucalyptus, ginger, grape, or citrus fruits such as lemon and lime or cheeses, or beverages such as white wine, cava, champagne, or infusions

Orange

- trunk, stem, leaves, flowers, fruits, or tubers of plants of the carrot or squash family, or citrus, such as orange, tangerine, lemon.

Red

- trunk, stem, leaves, flowers, fruits, or tubers of plants of the rose family, strawberry, cherry, berries, watermelon, pomegranate, black grapes or drinks such as red wine, rum, whiskey or rust.

Brown

- trunk, stem, leaves, flowers, fruits, or tubers of plants of the cedar family, oak, pine, birch, fir, holm oak, poplar, chestnut, almond, walnut, peanut, cinnamon or drinks such as rum whiskey or wine or musk or wet earth or rust.

White

- trunk, stem, leaves, flowers, fruits, or tubers of plants of the jasmine family, or orange blossom or milk, cheeses, yogurts, butter, margarine or oil.

Black

- coal, graphite, slate, ash or soot.

Gray

- Gray amber or trunk, stem, leaves, flowers, fruits, or tubers of plants of the bitter herb family, such as dandelion.

Plant-related fragrances can refer to both the smell of the trunk, the stem, the leaves, the flowers, the fruits, or the tubers, of those plants, and also refer to other plants of the same family of the cited plant.

Obviously for an expert it will be understood that many other different correlations between fragrances and colors would be possible, and even relate these same elements differently. Or a scale with less or more colors, with their respective associated odors, would also be feasible.

It is also contemplated that a fragrance proposed to be associated with a color may be associated with an adjacent color in the color scale, the colors being ordered by their wavelengths.

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In an additional and non-limiting way, the use of reliefs on the surface of the colorizable support is proposed, preferably using said relief to delimit the areas that contain different colors identifiable by their corresponding fragrances.

Said multisensory product can be a canvas or a laminar product printed on paper or plastic, such as books, magazines, catalogs, leaflets, advertising, posters, other supports such as fabrics, for example household linen such as sheets or towels are also contemplated. , clothing such as shirts, shirts, pants, skirts, etc. This use in fabrics would allow people with visual impairments to recognize the color of the garments or parts of them through smell, thus allowing them to combine these garments without the help of people without visual impairments.

Another proposed use, by way of example, for this product is the printing of art books, in which the printed pictorial works, being their different chromatic zones touched by a user, emit fragrances, allowing a user with visual impairments to distinguish the colors of the different areas of this pictorial work through smell.

All the examples of use of the multisensory product cited so far are mere non-limiting examples, an expert being able to implement said multisensory product in another support or field without departing from the scope of the present invention.

Brief description of the figures The above and other advantages and features will be more fully understood from

of the following detailed description of an exemplary embodiment with reference to the attached drawings, which should be taken by way of illustration and not limitation, in which: Fig. 1 shows an open book, with a polychromatic image printed on a page,

formed by colored shapes;

Fig. 2 shows said printed colored forms, indicating the name of the colors or ranges of colors that compose it; Fig. 3 shows the four delimited areas into which said image is divided,

corresponding to four different colors or ranges of colors; Fig. 4 schematically shows the distribution of the different encapsulated fragrances, which corresponds to the delimited areas and the colors of Fig. 2, indicating the name of the fragrances of each zone.

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Detailed description of an embodiment example According to a non-limiting embodiment example, four colors and four fragrances distinguishable from each other are selected, and a fragrance is associated with each of the selected colors, for example as follows:

COLOR

FRAGRANCE

blue

- Lavender.

Yellow

- Tea.

Orange

- Tangerine.

Brown

- Cedar.

Each fragrance is encapsulated in nanocapsules configured to release its content by being

pressed, touched or rubbed. Four different coloring products will be selected, in this case printing inks, which match the four colors associated with the fragrances. Optionally you can select additional inks that are not associated with any fragrance, such as in this case the color black.

The nanocapsules impregnated with each fragrance are mixed with the ink of its corresponding color, and it is then printed on the colorable support 1 with the desired colored shapes 2, using all or part of the prepared color inks.

The result obtained will be the multisensory product prepared for the proposed fragrance release shown in Fig. 1. A product in which the same colored support 1 can integrate different colors (Fig. 2), printed in different delimited areas (Fig. 3 ), and in which each of these delimited areas printed with the same color has nanoparticles impregnated with the same fragrance associated with that color (Fig. 4).

It will be obvious to an expert, that other colors, other fragrances, or other correlations of colors and fragrances can be used, in the same way that you can limit the range of colors with a fragrance assigned to two, or increase to the number you want .

The possibility of not mixing the nanoparticles with the coloring product is also contemplated, so that said nanoparticles are added independently on the colorizable support, for example by means of an ink printing process

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transparent, thus allowing greater freedom for mixing colors during

impression, and greater delimitation of areas that contain a certain fragrance. In one embodiment, it is provided that the printed colored support 1 integrates reliefs that define the delimited areas, so that a blind person can recognize by

5 Touch the shapes of each of the delimited areas and also identify their color contrasts olfactory.

The method for the identification of chromatic information by people with visual impairments includes adding or applying to each of a plurality of areas of a

10 multisensory product, differentiated by its color, a corresponding fragrance, which will be released when said area is touched or pressed by said person so that it is possible to identify it olfactoryly

The aforementioned fragrances will be applied on each of the differentiated color zones, by integration into nanocapsules distributed in the colored areas.

15 This method uses the same correlation between colors and fragrances proposed for the multisensory product.

Claims (4)

image 1 image2 image3 1.-Multisensory product for the identification of chromatic information, which has:  at least one support (1), with a color arranged on said support (1);  releasable fragrances that are encapsulated, being releasable at least in part as a result of contact, pressure or rubbing, arranged on said support; where each fragrance is associated with a similar color or range of colors characterized by that  on said support (1) colored shapes (2) are arranged in several colors, at least on a first and second delimited areas, differentiable from each other, each of which including a colored part of a homogeneous color or of a similar color range provided by the aforementioned differentiation;  said colored and differentiated parts, of a homogeneous color or of a range of similar colors, of said at least one first and a second delimited zone, incorporate respective and different encapsulated fragrances, allowing to distinguish colors from colored forms by smell. 2. Multi-sensory product according to claim 1, characterized in that said Different fragrances are each of them homogeneous or of a range of fragrances similar to each other. 3.-Multisensory product according to claim 1 or 2 characterized in that the encapsulated fragrances are mixed with the coloring product that it forms said colored forms (2). 4-Multisensory product according to claim 1, 2 or 3 characterized in that the fragrances are encapsulated in nanocapsules. 5. Multisensory product according to claim 2 characterized in that the colors of the range of violets are associated with fragrances obtained from, or that reproduce the fragrance of at least one of the following odors:  trunk, stem, leaves, flowers, fruits, or tubers of plants in the family of violets or lavenders. image4 range of blues are associated with fragrances obtained from, or that reproduce the fragrance of at least one of the following odors:  calone;  trunk, stem, leaves, flowers, fruits, or tubers of plants in the family of violets or lavenders;  seaweed or fish; Salt 7. Multi-sensory product according to claim 2 characterized in that the colors of the range of greens are associated with fragrances obtained from, or that reproduce the fragrance of at least one of the following odors:  trunk, stem, leaves, flowers, fruits, or tubers of plants of the mint family, basil, herb, bay leaf, rosemary, thyme, geranium, eucalyptus, cypress, pistachio, lettuce, cabbage, pea, artichoke, bean, Zucchini or cucumber. 8.-Multisensory product according to claim 2 characterized in that the colors of the range of yellows are associated with fragrances obtained from, or that reproduce the fragrance of at least one of the following odors:  trunk, stem, leaves, flowers, fruits, or tubers of plants of the vanilla, tea, eucalyptus, ginger, grape, or citrus family such as lemon and lime. Cheeses;  drinks such as white wine, cava, champagne, or infusions. 9.-Multisensory product according to claim 2 characterized in that the colors of the range of oranges are associated with fragrances obtained from, or that reproduce the fragrance of at least one of the following odors:  trunk, stem, leaves, flowers, fruits, or tubers of plants in the family of carrot or squash, or citrus, such as orange, tangerine, lemon. 10.-Multisensory product according to claim 2 characterized in that the colors of the red range are associated with fragrances obtained from, or that reproduce the fragrance of at least one of the following odors:  trunk, stem, leaves, flowers, fruits, or tubers of plants of the rose family, strawberry, cherry, berries, watermelon, pomegranate, black grapes;  drinks such as red wine, rum, whiskey; Rust image5 The range of browns are associated with fragrances obtained from, or that reproduce the fragrance of at least one of the following odors:  trunk, stem, leaves, flowers, fruits, or tubers of plants of the cedar family, oak, pine, birch, fir, oak, poplar, chestnut, almond, walnut, peanut, cinnamon  drinks such as rum, whiskey or wine; Musk  wet earth, rust. 12. Multi-sensory product according to claim 2 characterized in that the colors of the range of the whites are associated with fragrances obtained from, or that reproduce the fragrance of at least one of the following odors:  trunk, stem, leaves, flowers, fruits, or tubers of plants of the jasmine family, or orange blossom;  milk, cheeses, yogurts, butter, margarine, oil. 13.-Multisensory product according to claim 2 characterized in that the colors of the gray range are associated with fragrances obtained from, or that reproduce the fragrance of at least one of the following odors:  gray amber  trunk, stem, leaves, flowers, fruits, or tubers of plants of the family of Bitter herbs, like dandelion. 14.-Multisensory product according to claim 2 characterized in that the colors of the range of blacks are associated with fragrances obtained from, or that reproduce the fragrance of at least one of the following odors:  coal, graphite, slate, ash, soot. 15.-Multisensory product according to any one of the preceding claims characterized in that the colored support (1) integrates reliefs and because at least part of said reliefs define the delimited areas. 16.-Method for the identification of chromatic information for people with visual impairments, characterized in that it comprises: - coloring a support (1) with colored shapes (2) in several colors, at least on a first and second delimited areas, differentiable from each other, each image6 similar color range provided by the aforementioned differentiation; Y -apply to each of these delimited areas, differentiated by their color, a corresponding identifiable fragrance that is releasable by pressure or rubbing contact; allowing to identify the different colored forms and their color by smell. 17.-Method according to claim 16, characterized in that said fragrances are encapsulated in nanocapsules that are mixed with the coloring product of said one or more zones differentiated by their color.