Patent ID: 7889381

Claim:
A photo service system comprising: a first storage control device which stores, unique admission ticket identification information stored in an IC chip of an admission ticket equipped with IC chip and a registered face image, a face image of a visitor who holds the admission ticket equipped with IC chip, in association with each other, in a first storage medium; an extraction device which extracts, from an original image taken with a plurality of visitors as objects, extracted face images indicating face portions of the visitors; a second storage control device which identifies a registered face image matching the extracted face image from the first storage medium, and stores admission ticket identification information corresponding to the identified registered face image, an extracted face image matching the identified registered face image and the original image including the extracted face image matching the identified registered face image in association with each other, in a second storage medium; a reading device which reads unique admission ticket identification information from the admission ticket equipped with IC chip and identifies the original image stored in said second storage medium associated with said ticket identification information; a composite device which creates a composite image in which extracted face images extracted from the original image stored in said second storage medium corresponding to the admission ticket identification information read from the admission ticket equipped with IC chip and a predetermined template image are superimposed; and a printing device which prints the composite image; a determination device which determines composite positions, positions where one or multiple extracted face images extracted from one original image are superimposed on the template image, wherein the composite device superimposes the extracted face images at the determined composite positions; wherein the determination device determines a composite position of an extracted face image corresponding to the admission ticket identification information read from the admission ticket equipped with IC chip to be a particular first composite position, and a composite position of an extracted face image not corresponding to the admission ticket identification information read from the admission ticket equipped with IC chip to be a second composite position other than the first composite position.