Information search system, information search method, information search device, information search program, image recognition device, image recognition method, image recognition program, and sales sy

Abstract

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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technical field [0001] The present invention relates to an information retrieval system, an information retrieval method, an information retrieval device, an information retrieval program, an image recognition device, an image recognition method, and an image Identification procedures, and sales systems. Background technique [0002] Consider, for example, a case where a user discovers a product of interest through an advertisement on paper media such as posters or magazine publications, or an advertisement using radio waves of an advertisement program broadcast on TV or radio as a medium. At this time, if the advertisement shows the store information where the product can be purchased, the user can directly go to the store to purchase the product according to the store information. When there is no information about the store where the product can be purchased is published in the advertisement, the user needs to make guesses based on the product to find a store. [0003] ...

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Problems solved by technology

[0025] However, in the past, there were various problems as mentioned above, so these services and transactions could not be executed satisfactorily, and as a result, there were many problems that companies or users lost trading opportunities

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