Patent ID: 7246085

Claim:
An electronic catalogue system for displaying on one screen an image of a commercial product and an image of an article for comparison in order for a viewer of the one screen to acquire a visual recognition of the size of the commercial product as compared to the size of the article for comparison, comprising: a server comprising a reader configured to read three-dimensional data of the commercial product and three-dimensional data of the article for comparison; an observation image generator configured to generate an observation image in which the image of the commercial product and the image of the article for comparison are located at predetermined positions based on the read three-dimensional data of the commercial product and three-dimensional data of the article for comparison; and a selecting device configured to automatically select the article for comparison in accordance with a type and a size of the commercial product; a displaying device configured to display the generated observation images, the displaying device including the one screen on which the image of the commercial product and the image of the article for comparison are displayed under the same scale; a terminal apparatus from which a positional relationship between the image of the commercial product and the image of the article of comparison on the screen can be changed by request of the terminal apparatus; and a communication line connecting the server and the terminal apparatus.