摘要 |
Steps after a user finds an attractive product until he or she buys it are successively performed so that he or she can buy it stressfreely. The user photographs an attractive product with a portable camera telephone terminal 1 and transmits image data 7 to a server 3 through Internet 2 . The server 3 has a DB 4 in which images such as various types of products, persons, and logo marks are registered and a DB 5 in which related information of image data registered in the DB 4 is registered. The server 3 performs an image recognizing process for the image data 7 , retrieves data that match the image data 7 with a high match rate from the image data registered in the DB 4 , and extracts corresponding related information from the DB 5 . The related information is provided to the user through the Internet 2 . By only transmitting the image data 7 , the user can obtain related information of an attractive product. When the user accesses a site 6 for the product corresponding to the related information, he or she can obtain detailed information and buy the product.
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