| 摘要 |
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an automatic vending machine analyzing picture information or sound information, estimating the sex, the age (twenties, thirties, for example) of a product purchaser and obtaining information useful for the analysis of the market of a product by means of considering a purchase class. SOLUTION: Whenever a product is purchased, a camera 11 takes a purchaser and picture data is sent to a picture analysis part 13 through a camera interface 12. The picture analysis part 13 analyzes the picture information and obtains the sex and the age (twenties, thirties, for example). A control part 15 executes a general product vending processing as an automatic vending machine (which is not especially illustrated) and obtains data of the item, the amount and the purchase time of the product sold by the processing. The control part 15 controls a network interface part 14 and transmits an analysis result by the picture analysis part 13, namely, data of the sex and the age of the product purchaser and data of the purchased item, the amount and purchase time to a center 30-side through a network 20.
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