Patent ID: 9053491
Filing Date: 2015-06-09
Classification: G06Q

Abstract:
1. A product evaluation system, comprising: a characteristic acquisition device that acquires characteristic information of a product, wherein the characteristic acquisition device comprises at least one device compatible with the product type identified by a product identifier selected from at least one of the group consisting of a radiographic test device, a fluorescent X-ray analysis device, an ultraviolet absorption analysis device, an image enlargement processing device, a surface roughness measurement device, an infrared light absorption/penetration analysis device, an acoustic frequency analysis device, an odor sensor, and a reflection coefficient measurement device; and a computer that evaluates a product, the computer comprising: a product information memory that stores a product type of a product including at least one of a product, a product group, a product brand and a product category, and identification information of the product; a characteristic acquisition method memory that stores an acquisition method for acquiring characteristic information corresponding to the product; the product identifier that identifies a product type of a product targeted for evaluation including at least one of a product, a product group, a product brand, or a product category, based on input information; a genuine product characteristic information memory that stores genuine product characteristic information of the product; a counterfeit product characteristic information memory that stores genuine product characteristic information of the product; a product condition memory that stores value information for each condition of the product; a market information memory that stores market information corresponding to the value information of the product; an evaluation task memory that stores a type of evaluation including any one of authentication, a value estimation, or authentication and a value estimation; an evaluation task acquisition unit that acquires the type of evaluation from the evaluation task memory; and an evaluation unit that performs a predetermined evaluation of the product targeted for evaluation, wherein: the evaluation unit acquires the identification information of the product targeted for evaluation from the product information memory based on the product type identified by the product identifier, acquires the characteristic acquisition method for the product targeted for evaluation from the characteristic acquisition method memory based on the identification information, and acquires the characteristic information of the product targeted for evaluation from the characteristic acquisition device compatible with the characteristic acquisition method; the evaluation unit references the type of evaluation acquired by the evaluation task acquisition unit; when the type of evaluation includes the authentication, the evaluation unit performs the authentication by acquiring at least one of the genuine product characteristic information and the counterfeit product characteristic information of the product targeted for evaluation with reference to at least one of the genuine product characteristic information memory and the counterfeit product characteristic information memory based on the identification information of the product targeted for evaluation, and by comparing the acquired at least one of the genuine product characteristic information and the counterfeit product characteristic information with the characteristic information of the product targeted for evaluation acquired from the characteristic acquisition device; when the type of evaluation includes the value estimation, the evaluation unit performs the value estimation by acquiring the value information of the product targeted for evaluation from the product condition memory based on the identification information of the product targeted for evaluation and the characteristic information related to the condition of the product targeted for evaluation acquired from the characteristic acquisition device, and by acquiring the market information of the product targeted for evaluation with reference to the market information memory based on the acquired value information; and when the evaluation unit evaluates that the product targeted for evaluation is a counterfeit product, the characteristic information of the product targeted for evaluation is saved in the counterfeit product characteristic information memory.